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Rather than chip in $. 5M fee for school voucher SG prefers a 15-cent hike By Jojo Dass in expenses as a consequence of Variety News Staff the increase. THE SAIP AN Garments Manu "In this case, we'd rather re facturing Association yesterday spect the Jaw," Lin explained. said its members can not afford to It will be recalled that House shell out $500,000 each in ex Speaker Diego Benavente (R change for a suspension of the 15- Saipan) has sa.id the House Re cent wage hike. publican leadership may recon "That (amount) is just too much. sider its earlier stand not to sus Nobody could afford it. We 're pend the wage hike after a pro just making cents and pennies," posal was made to link the salary said SGMA President James Lin increase.with the school voucher in an interview. program being considered by the "As much as we don't want to Legislature. see the increase, we have to live Benavente said a majority of with what the law says," he added. James Lin the House Republicans will agree Lin said SGMA members' com increase. to suspend the wage hike if gar putation showed that they could "A factory with about 300 to ment factories agree to increase ' I actually save on expenses should 500 workers will have to add an license fees from $50 to $500,000 they chose to abide by the wage other $200,000 to $300,000 a year Continued on page 73 i' l.
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By Mar-Vic C. Munar him," said Lapin, president of i Variety News Staff Applied Business Ethics Interna THESTRUCTUREand manage tional. ment system of the Department Lapin has been commissioned of Labor and Immigration need by the government to study ·the radical reforms to improve the impact of cultural diversity and operations of the department, a ethics on efficiency. private consultant to the govern Lapin conducted a study of the ment said yesterday. local labor system from June to David Lapin also noted the need August of last year. He has met to revise the CNMI labor code. with government officials, busi He said a study of the ness leaders, and workers. department's system revealed "se CoJTuption in the department is rious inefficiencies" that may trig on insignificant scale, Lapin said. ger corruption. Bribery, he said, mostly comes "If there was any conuption, it from private individuals making was because of the inefficiencies. transactions with the department If somebody wants something to "It was not the department so be done in a hurry, then he offers liciting, but the public offering," gift to somebody who can help Continued on page 73 Gov. Froilan C. Tenorio signs proclamation declaring July as CNMI Literacy------Month.
PALAU Presiderrt Kuniwo Nakamura said in a news release. tremel y pleased to appoint Lane, Nakamura has appointed a lead: In naming Lane, Nakamura si whose availability for the posi ing CNMI government lawyer multaneously withdrew the ap tion became known soon after as Palau's next special prosecu- pointment of his initial choice for the President had made his ini ! tor. the position, assistant United tial selection. / Alan L. Lane, an Assistant States Attorney Lawrence Spong. "Alan Lane is a top-notch i Attornei General for the C.om- Spong's nomination could not criminal lawyer who knows this 1, monwealth, also a former Chief proceed due to an interpretation cpuntry and its people," said i Public Defender and an Associ- of a U.S. Justice Department rule President Nakamura. "I am 1 ate Justice of the Palau Supreme that precluded him from seeking pleased that we have been able Court in the early 1980's, was confirmation for the position to attrac~ Mr. Lane back to Palau, chosen due to his extensive while still employed as an assis where he was a distinguished experience in criminal law and tant U.S. attorney. public servant in the early familiarity with the region, Kuniwo Nakamura The President said he was ex- Continue~ on page 73
In.. ,.£.o...n..A '~~ -. '"· '' ...... ' .Pa., ,~~ ..... ~.,..---. ~,,,,,,, 2-MARIANAS VARIEJ't'_NEW~_0ND VIEWS-FRIDAY- JULY 4. 1997 FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1997 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-3 Palau tour businesses Today's Parade.Line-up Floats and Marching groups ore require President's OK Procession of VJ.P's to Reviewing Sfand: 9:00 am Parade Line-Up IN AN attempt to further safe and await final approval from moving the Republic to its pri I. Department of Public Safety Color Guard Kawasaki to be emptied. people. I guard the nation's expanding Nakamura before beginning mary goal of achieving eco Dozens of ships were mobi Fifteen people, including I 3 ! ! 2. Department of Public Safety Law Enforcement Explorer Progrnm travel industry. tour operators operations in the Republic. nomic self-sufficiency in the 3. CNMI ROT0Saipan, Rota and Tinian lized to clean up the spill Thurs children, were nauseated by the interested in doing business in Nakamura said the executive coming years," the news release 4. Boyscouts of Amelie:~ CNMI Chapter day and slow the oil's advance strong oil odor early Wednesday 'i) Palau must now be subject to order is another indication of read. 5. Garapan Elementary School Mallard Band toward fish stocks near the coast and hospitalized, but none was approval from Pres idcn t his Administration's commit The plan tasks the Palau Visi 'i lines. Workers spread absorbent 6. GCC Color Guard seriously ill. No more illnesses Kuniwo Nakamura, the ment to protect the travel indus tors Authority's Board of Di 7. JFK Drill Team mats on the slick and helicopters were reported and officials said President's Office said in a news try, which has become a major rectors with the development of sprayed dissolving agents on it. 8. GWHS Combined Exhibition Team the smell had abated. release. source of economic activity for a licensing process for tour op 9. GWHS Cheerleaders National broacaster NHK The greatest immediate threat "Among the paramount inter Palau and many of the nation's erators, to include evidence of JO. Nights of Columbus Saipan!Guam quoted maritime officials as say seemed to be to the bay's fishing ests of the Republic are ensur citizens. compliance with Palau's appli 11. Kore;m Association Taekwon-do Demoo,1rntion ing they would begin questioning grounds. Yokohama port is ing compliance with our laws "The growing demand for ser cable laws and regulations. 12. Cl'{Ml Lion's Club the ship's captain Thursday to heavily industrialized and oil stor and advancing and protecting vices in this ever-important en The Authority's Board of Di 13. United Filipino Organization find out whether the accident re age facilities dot the coastline, the safety and welfare of our terprise, combined with the rectors or its authorized repre 14. VlSMINDA- Marching Unit sulted from negligence. but towns that depend on the bay's citizens and others within our sharp increase in interest from sentative will also be respon 15. 1997 Culturnl Revival Festival Grnnd Marshall, Honornble Vicente Sala;; Sabhui NHK also reported thatJ apan 's fish stocks - which feed the jurisdiction," Nakamura said local and outside investors, has sible for issuing a certification 16. 1996 Literation Day Queen, Mi Michelle T. Tginocf · largest oil removal vessel, dis country's biggest metropolitan in Executive Order No. 155. made the additional safeguard a and recommendation to Presi 17. ICfJ7 Miss CNMI International, Ms Maria Acosta patched from a port in Nagoya in area · ring the bay as well. Under the E.O., all tour op necessary step in protecting the dent Nakamura for either his 18. I 997 Miss CNMI Teen, Maryann Pangelinan and Royal Princes.,, Miyuiki Hill central Japan on Wednesday, ar . The spill is the second major erators must submit applica welfare of Palau ans and visitors approval or denial of the appli 19. 19<)7 Miss San Jose Fiesta, Martina Diaz from the island ofTinian rived in Tokyo Bay on Thursday oil accident this year in Japan. In tions to the President's Office alike, while at the same time cation. 20. L997Little Miss CNMI, Victoria Ann Tudela Cabrera and Rmmer-Up, and would begin operations later. January, a Russian tanker split Monique Iglesias-Muna "The most important thing for and sank in the Sea of Japan 21. P.JCific Islands Club· Show folks and clomis wirh jipney us to do now is to limit the extent off the western coast, spilling 22. Oleai Thum Corp of the spill," said Shigehiro 4,080 tons (1.2 million gal Former Hillblom live-in partner 23. CNMI Youth Center Music & Perfonning Arts Sakamoto, head of the emergency lons) of fuel oil and fouling 24. Mariana1 Academy of Music & Arts task force. "We are putting all of hundreds of kilometers (mi !es) 25. Kasamiento, Wedding World our resources into that." of shoreline. says $73M UMDA deal suspicious 26. US Anny Reserve Saipan 3rd Platoon, Company E, 442nd sepalllle Jnfan1ry Batallion The cause of the accident was Wednesday's spill dumped By Ferdie de la Torre "Why did the executor wait until 'Yl. Saipan Cable T. V. Fox Kids Club under investigation, and local fish nearly twice as much as Variety News Staff June 26, I997toadvisetheCom1,md 28. L«:al Island Riders ( 2 wheel bicycles) The Maritime S_elf-[!efense. Force memb13:rs aboard a boat scatter dissolving agent over crude oil-covered ermen wondered how the naviga 29. PIKA -Pacific l~lands Kaiting Association water m the" oil-spill cleaning operation ,n Tokyo Bay. AP ~. Japan's previous worst spill lARRY Hillblom's former live-in the parties of tl1is pending deal~," the tors of such a huge tanker could in 1974, when 6,800 tons (2 partner Josephine Nocasa said the an lawyer said. 30. American Red Cross CNMl Chapter By ERIC TALMADGE Diamond Grace wafted ashore in peninsula on the eastern side of have misjudged the well-known million gallons) poured from ticipated $73 million sale of United Dotts questioned why the 31. Amigo Riders YOKOHAMA,Japan(AP)-Oil four places along the industrial the bay. contours of the busy bay. a storage tank in southwestern MicronesianDevelopment'sshares in shru-eholder's meeting w:L~ called by 32 uiw Riders Pick-Up show car from Japun ·s worst-ever spi II shore I ine of Yokohama and The hulking, 147,012-ton su It was still uncertain how the Japan. Continental Micronesia to Continen UMDA management in Majuro, 33. C & F Auto Boys reached shore early Thursday. a Kawasaki just south of Tokyo. pertanker ran aground in shallow spill would affect business in the The Diamond Grace and its tal Airlines is "extremely suspicious." Marshall Islands considering that 34. CNMI Local Truck day after a supertanker ripped its The bulk of the spill, however, waters Wednesday morning not bay, home to Japan's busiest port, 25-member crew had been en Nocasa, through counsel Michael majorshru-eholdcrs ofUMDA are all 35. CNMI Linle League All Stars hull and dis!!orgcd 13.400 tons was still in the bay. Authori- 36. CNMI Little League All Stars Vehicle far from Yokohama in the middle Yokohama. Also unclear was how route to Kawasaki from a port Dotts, voiced her opposition to the onSaipan. (3.9 million g~tll;ns)of crnde into ties feared that oil from the 18- 37. Commonwealth Ports Authority Rescue Vehicle of Tokyo Bay. The ship stopped the slick would affect life as it in United Arab Emirates, car "deal" as the interested parties and the Doll, said the timirn.! of this ··sale·• Tokyo Bay. kilometer (l 1-mile) wide slick 38. Commonwealth Ports Authority Fire Truck leaking oil 90 minutes after the neared Tokyo and neighboring rying 257,000 tons (75.5 mil Superior Cour1 have not been pro comes just as the com1wa~ to add1-ess Oil from the Japanese-owned might also hit shore on the Chib,t accident, and it later moved to Chiba: ho_me to nearly 18 million lion gallons) of crude oil, 39. Guam based Aklan-Ilollo Filipino Group vided enough information to prop tJ1e constitutionality of Public Law 40. Saipan Car Dealers Show · when.it ran aground. erly evaluate Continental 's offer. 10-10 (Hillblom Law) and just after 41. Eusebio C. Borja Bull Cart The tanker is primarily by a Dotts said in Nocasa' s motion that Josephine Nocasa William Webster leaves his post a~ 42. Nila'la Taotao Tano wholly owned Panamanian all the cou1t knows about the deal is the estate special administrator. 43. US Aimed Forces Veteran, CNMI Marching Unit ·, subsidiary of Nippon Yusen that UMDA will lose between $9 MCV. Consequently, the proposed "Could it be that UMDA manage 44. US Anned Forces Veterans CNMI Float I K.K., Jap,m's top shipping million and $12 million in annual deal may be of no benefit at all to ment sees the writing on the wall that 45. Triple J Saipan feanuing 1997 Miss CNMI Universe·, Melanie Sibetang company. revenues guaranteed through 2011 as estate, and will not expedite closing by the end of this year, a new share 46. Korean Association king .& queen Float well as dividends. this probate," the lawyer said. holder will take over UMDA?" he · • 47. Pacific Development Inc. PDI Man mistaken According to Dotts thecoui1knows Dotts said rumors are that UMDA said. 48. Japanese Aswciation Northern Marianas UMDA management will benefit was approached by four suitors be "Is this a final effo1t by the insiders 49. Garapan Elementary School Literacy Program for a N. Korean from any dividend of the Continental sides Continental. to grab as much cash as they can and 50. YCL LIFERS - Marianas High School spykilled · sales proceeds and they also get to "Why did theotherfoursuitorsnot get out of the CNMI before Larry 51. VISMINDA Float keep their free airline passes. close a deal? Was it because UMDA I-lillblom's heir writes them all their 52. Tan Holdmgs What the cou1t and the pruties have maimgement insisted in the negotia pink slips?" 53. KobleIVille Elementary School "The Flying Pro's" SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A not been told about the deal, Doll~ tions that they be allowed to keep all Dotts asked the court to direct the 54. US Navy Color Guards fisherman was shot dead when explained, is that MCV, ;mother asset of their perks?" he said. executor to vote ''NO" at the July I 0 55. US Navy Marching Units soldiers mistook him for a North of UMDA, is in negotiations to pur Dons said even tJ1c estate executor shareholder's meeting. 56. US Air Force Honor Guard Korean spy near the southern port chase Saip,m Cable TY ,md Guam Brn1k of Saipru1 is not 100% behind PeopleofMicronesiaisacomp,my 57. Coral OceJn Point -Sponsor of Princess Lourdes C. 01arfauros ·- city of' Pusan, the South Korean Cable TY ,md that tJ1is will leave tJ1c deal. wholly owned by tl1e estate. In tum, 58. Carolinian Affairs Office -Sponsor of Princess Leilani L. Iginc.:f Defense Ministry said Thursday. UMDA heavily laden witJ1 debt. He pointed out that the deal has the fom owns 45% of UMDA. 59. Crystal P,Jace/Chinese Association: Crystal Palace sponsor of 1997 Qu~u Min Rae-sup, 38, wus within a "Certainly, the majority of tJ1e $73 obvious! y been under negotiation for A heaiing about Noca~a·s motion 60. QUEEN CLAUDIA PALACIOS SANTOS military zone off limits to civil million will have gone to support some time. was held yesterday afternoon. CULTIJRAL REVIVAL FF.STIV AL l W7 .J ians Wednesday night.when sol diers on guard spotted him and ordered him three times to halt; Tenorio signs buts questions Literacy Month Proclamation the ministry said. When Min failed to heed the By Laila C. Younis they m-e illiterate", he added. ChamberofCornmerce was quick to "What we w-e saying is tJ1at1-eading school, in tl1e work place ,md in orders, soldiers fired several shots, Variety News Staff Tony Pellegiino of the Saipan 1-espond. is at a low level he1-e. And we :u-e families, said PREL Deputy Director believing him to be a North Ko APROClAMATIONdeclrningJuly trying to increase the level of 1-ead Dr. Rita H. Inos. rean spy, it said. as CNMI Literacy Month met shaky ing'', he said. "P;ut of literacy encouragement i.< Later Wednesday night, a North ground at tl1e Govcmor's Confer ABE Di1-ectonmd GED Adminis through cultural literacy, to instill tl1e Korean patrol ship crossed into ence room yesterday. trator Fe Y. Calixterio also oied to oral u·adition,md have mor-e activities South Korean waters in the Yel After signing it, Govcmor Froliim clmify the matter by defining litcrncy. tJiat focus on the family. You (Gov low Sea off the west coast, the Tenorio questioned why the procla '·As a group, we ag.1-eed that tJ1e ernor) stin-ed up gocx.1 debate rn1d ministry said. The patrol boat re mation focused only on tJ1e illiteracy definition of literacy a~ the capability sparked gcxxl ideas," she added. q::· turned on its own, and the viola rate of local citizens. tor-ead, write,mdcompute. It is a life 'llie proclimiation said Northern tion did not appear to be inten l11c proclamation states that· ·com long lemning," she said. Mmirn1,Ls College, Saipw1 Chmnbcr tional, it said. piled stati sties show rn1 ahuming high "I am asking, m-e we iII iterate be of Commerce, Ayuda Network, Inc .. Last September, a North Ko rate of illiteracy among the indig cause of our educational system? Public School System, Joeten-Kiyu re an spy submi1rine ran enous people of the Northern Because if tJ1e pmblem is witJ1 the Libnuy, ,me.I PREL have "fo1rned a aground off South Korea's Mari,m,L, lslrn1ds ". educational system, we will have tJ1is pmtnership to make Ii teracy prognu11s ' •. :, Ground floor La Fiesta Mall, San Roque Saipan cast coast, resulting in a mas "I don't agree with this illiteracy problem forever," said tl1c Governor. a community based effort". rate. How do you define litcr~1cy or "I bkm1e the educational system According to tl1e prochmmtion, tJ1e Tel.: 322-5636-37 • 10:00 AM to 9:30 PM sive manhunt that led to the deaths of 24 North Koreans illiteracy? I hope you do not consider for tJ1is illitcrncy rate", he said. purpose of Literacy month is to ''in and l I South Korean soldiers my 1110111 illiterate," said Tenorio. ··we have to look at all tJ1e dimen Ci-eiL~e public awrn-eness, understand and ci vi Ii ans. One sailor was "It docsn 't mcrn1 just b:causc some Gov. Froilan C. Tenorio, education sector officials and concerned sions of literacy, like computer lit ing ,md suppo1t for literacy programs captured. one c,umot r.:ad English, or if they citizens discuss issues about literacy during yesterday's signing cer eracycomp,ui.:c.1 tobookliterncy. Also, m1dencour:1gctJ1ecxplor:1tionofthesc don't have a high schoo.I diploma emony for CNMI Literacy month. we have to look at what it me.ms in prog.rm11s ".
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EDITORIAL You EVER BEEN AN Dear Edi tor: reeling here is only the latest in a long people of the No1tl1em Marianas that lion. I does not want to pay for calls from the IT'S TIME for Micronesiim Tele I. Ae>ULTERER ?Tr. , .... l line of false and inaccurate state Northern Matiat1as--orany otlJerpait toll-,ji-ee 800 service has nothing todo However, we have heard ihat some I communications Corporation to put ments about the telecommunications of the country for that matter-calls with the North American Numbering customers arc still experiencing prob '; Stop the giveaway mentality a stop to all the potentially libelous industry that have been reported in from that an:a will not go through. It's Plan! As we have 1epeatedly said, lems with some numbers. Although IT SURE seems odd to see legislators votin.(T aoainst a pro- andiiresponsiblemisinfo1mation that the local press recently. as simple as that For example, a NANP is merely a dialing pattern all long distmice cm1iers involved in 11.eopk argument at a time when election time~ f;st approach I is being fed to the Variety and other It is blatantly untrue tliat tl1e resi busincssmayonlywat1ttoaccept800 it does not include any additional the changeover to NANP were noti ing. N_ormally. whenever an election is near, most of our news organizations in the Northern dentsofthe Northern Maiianas wou Id calls from the Los Angeles metro benefitslikeaccessto800numbersor fied far in advmice by MTC that they lawmakers almost by instinct go for what is "closest to the 'i· ' Marianas by so-called telecommuni ever have access to every toll-free politan area. A callerin Sat1 Francisco lower long-distance rates. In fact, in would need to make changes lo their common people· s stomachs." so to speak. cations "experts." 800 number in the United States they will not be able to reach that toll-free ternational 800 service between the systems, some chose not to 1cspo11d Anyone who has frequented the halls of the Legislature or ~ The lead strny in the July 3 edition seeadvertisedon television. The busi number, even though he is in tl1e NorthemMmtmasandtheU.S.main until thenightofthecutover,md were who has gotten to try every lawmaker's brewed coffee will l of the Marianas Variety was filled nesses that set i.Jp these number.;, same state. Anyone who does not land has been operational since 1992. therefore caught unprepmed. attest to this. lt has become a credible formula forconoressmen with gross inaccuracies and we want which are in effect automatic collect undersumd this point is woefully mis TI1e companies that have decided lo We arc aware that then:: are also to set the record sfraight calls, determine the areas from where informed. accept toll-free calls from our islands some companies on the U.S. main and senators to side with the people on issues during~ reelec The misinformation that I am cor- they wantto accept calls. If a business We also want to make it clear to the do this on a "non-published" basis. land that had problems in making the tion \'Car. like being against tax increases bi,,.,e; budoets This means that they do not want their changeover. We expect that these long;r stay for alien ~vo11'crs or most especially, :;ainst gi:ind numbers given out to tlJe general companies will be able to iron out out public land. Apply some brakes on 'expansion' public because they only want to their problems within the coming Lawmakers arc generally expected to be pushing people Dear Editor Smiling Cove marina is already children at school, not once but accept toll-free calls from a limited month. MTC will continue to work to impressing measures. like increasing retirement pensions, ap HAVING pulled ourselves out congested. I spoke to a boat twice a day, to hand us money number of people witl1 whom tl1ey assist them. propriating a few mill ions for water projects or better roads in of subsistence living, after cen owner who uses the Garapan for food as long as we stayed ai-e already doing business. TI1e MTC staff has has done an their precincts. turies of watching foreigners ramp and he thought a viable al unemployed and keep a large The change the public h,L5 seen in ouL,tandingjob of installing and pro But going against what could be a popular, populist stand is enjoy a lifestyle we can only ternative would be to build a new family. tl1e. past few days is a result of a gran1ming the highly sophisticated what the two houses of Legislature seemed to have opted for, dream of, we have finally ramp. He even suggested the We were conned into estab decision made by some long-distance equipment needed to b1ing NANP to 11 hen their members approved in convincing fashion the pro emerged dramatically in the last shoreline adjacent to the Army lishing a center for the elders carriers on the mainl:md to include the Mmian,L,. posed l1t1H.l lease agreement for Bird Island Development, Inc. 's decade with the potential to en Reserve Camp in Puerto Rico. so we can keep them away from the No1them Mmimas ,md Guam in I am very proud of our employees hotel project over in Marpi. joy a Iifesty le that most people This.area is probably a part of their grandchildren; soon, the the s,U11e nationwide service m-ea ,L5 who have shown ,m ouL,tanding level Considering the controversy that has surrounded the project Zaldy Dandan in the Pacific can only.dream of the Tanapag Harbor military re convalescent home. What have Hawaii. Again this is NOT a function of dedication while working m·ound and the amount of coverage i: got from the local media, it is themselves. Now we are so busy tention but, it's been just sitting we as a people, gotten out of of the No1th Ame1ican Numbe1ing the clock. I want to publicly th,mk perplexing h'ow even avowed project opponents and ''land for wallowing in the fat. we cannot there for over 50 years. Someone this so called economic Plan. them fortheirtirelesseffortsin b1ing locals advocates"' g,"'e the project a thumbs up. notwithstand Cash register patriotism see what lies beneath the sur should talk to Uncle Sam about it. "growth"? The people of the Northern ing the NANP system to this commu ing the last-minute opposition launched by the ··vote-rich" face. It is also reasonable to negotiate The prison for immigrants? Maiianas must understand that MTC nity. Kiyu family. THREE days after the Philippines celebrated take some time before the legislation reaches the I once was told that people are with the owners of the hotel resort The $12 million Judicial Com has done its pmt and fully complied It seems that for this to happen, something extraordinary has the 99th anniversary of its declaration of in White House. sort of, like the frog in a pot of and have them foot the bill for the plex? The proposed $21 mil with the wishes of the local govern Sincerely to transpire. There has to be a good reason for lawmakers to risk dependence, more than a dozen Filipino World What then is the "clarifying strand" running water on a burner. If the heat is new ramp. After all they stand to lion state of the art prison facil ment in btinging the No1th Ame1icm1 colliding with the pro-people sentiment. War II veterans chained themselves to the through all this? turned up quickly the frog will gain the most from this develop ity? This by the way, would be Numbering Plan to our islands at a DEL E. JENKINS One could not help but wonder whether there is any truth to statue of Gen. Douglas MacArthur in Leyte Only this: That what used to be a patriotic come flying out of the pot but, ment. Can we get the political the single most costly under cost to our company of over $4 mil- General M:mager and declared that they're on a hunger strike. the allegations made by Rep. Stanley T. Torres that he was duty-a willingness to die in defense of one's when the temperature is raised element in on this one. After all, taking of the CNMI government. The veterans, who are already in their 70s, gradually the frog is able to ad this is election year, yeah? I am not altogether convinced approached by Bird Island official and long-time CNMI resi country-can now be quantified with a cash want the U.S. Congress to give them the same register. just its body temperature to the Economic expansion has im the federal takeover of labor and US takeover to stop abuses dent James Lin asking his support for the project in exchange benefits U.S. soldiers received, such as health point where it will literally and planted a very large foreign popu immigration is entirely a bad idea. Dem·Editoc We have always hem·d of aliens for "'suppor.t'' for Torres' Senate bid. That is the real tragedy here and not the spec care. Otherwise they would starve themselves tacle of old men saying "gimme." quite contently, boil to death. lation yet, ourobsession with eco It could very well be a blessing in I SIMPLY cannot undersumd how being abused. But we rarely he,U' of If that was true. then it would not be hard to imagine how the to death. Which, considering their age, would Patriotism used to be its own reward, and Recently, there was grave con nomic "growth" has ironically disguise; definitely a wake up mm1ypcople fail to see that tl1e immi local citizens being subjected to labor same branl( of patronage politics could have been tried on the probably not take long. One of them, the 72- fighting for one's country was the ineluctable cern raised by misled individu intensified. We have come to view call. Let me also note that the gration takeover by U.S. can solve abuses. Why is that? Because a local other. previously opposing legislators year old Angel dela Cruz, wa~ rushed to the outgrowth of our heroic longing, which, in turn, als that P.L. I 0-44 has caused a the future in terms of a constantly most sensible response to Mr. the labor abuses in the CNMJ. citizen has a right to choose his em And then there is that statement former governor Carlos S. hospital for treatment of dehydration and ex gave us what Allan Bloom calls the "splendor of decline in foreign investment. expanding economy even to the Clinton's warning is one written Based on eve1ybody' s prediction, ployer or to work or not to work Camacho who after the joint vote was quoted as having said, haustion, though he vowed to resume court soul." Patriots and heroes needed neither special And they would have us believe point of increasing the burden of by the Senate President; We ac all the aliens would have to be repa ,mytime he likes, tlJere is simply no "'Money talks." This boggles the mind. ing death once he is well enough to do so. legislations nor green cards to risk their lives for that the slightest inteITuption on work, reducing the parenting of knowledge the problem and we lliated once tl1e takeover becomes way he can be subjected to any labor It is incumbent among lawmakers to be very careful when it It is. to be sure, a pathetic spectacle, these the country, and mercenaries were the only ones this break-neck economic ex children, and now threatening to will do something about it. effective. If this turns out to be true, abuse. The ve1y moment he 1ealizes comes to image and integrity. That is if they intend to be back frail, ageing heroes chaining themselves to a who asked for booties. pansion could send us all back to compromise their future. There are existing conditions then there can be no mor-e abuses that his employer does not pay his in their swivel clrnirs early next year. statue. Whining. To be fair to the veterans, however, it was the the farm. The issue of an eco The evidence has clearly pre within the CNMI that we will beeciuse the1e wiil be no more aliens wages, he does not wait to be abused They should know better than to be too generou~ when it Still, who can blame them for remembering U.S. government that dangled material benefits logically sustainable economy sented us with a simple equation; never be able to clearly visual lo abuse. some more. He just leaves his em comes to the uisposal of public resources, be they land. money a promise the U.S. government made whe~ to their Filipino soldiers who, it can never be is essentially a dead fish. Shane increases in material living stan ize. One is the imported foreign 1l1c takeover will in fact be tl1c ployer and finds a better one. or other benefits that should be coming the local pcoplc"s way. the Japanese Imperial Armv was on the vcr~e overemphasized, were not given "equal treat Novak's sealife programs should dards contributes to the deterio labor population. Realistically, mostefficient,mdsu1estwaytoeradi While I a~'lee tl1at the takeo\'erwill Is the Lcgisl,tturc only good for giving away land for golf of' routing the Filipino-A~erican forces in ment'' after the war. be al the heart of the curriculum. ration ofnot only the social fab the only way we could possibly cate labor abuses of aliens. be dcl!imental to our economy. I courses'' Will we continue hearing about how often members go 1942-that the United States would reward ·No doubt, they are entitled to it, but their Speaking offish. What will be ric but also the natural environ do so is, if we were able to as Now, if some people ,ue tl1inking ecumot agree witl1 thepmposition d1ar ofrctaining some alic:ns here after the the takeover will not soln: th: labor on trips. off-island international conferences and meetings? the Filipinos' undisputed loyalty and bravery theatrics have only soiled whatever mantle of the fate of local fishermen fight ment. semble all of them in one place. in the face of the rampaging, well-armed fas takeover, the retained aliens will not abuses in the CNMJ. Did it not occur to them that some of the things they are doing heroism they c.ould claim for themselves. ing to keep the Garapan boat Shouldn't we begin to ques Now, ifwe imported strawbeITy 1 cist enemy. be susceptible of abuses because are most of the time entirely different from what the people What a contrast to the veterans of the commu ramp open and what alterna tion the decision to allow the pickers we can easily nailadrive-J Moreover, these veterans were American Congress will not allow tl1em to stay Ve1y trnly yours expect of them? nist Hukbong Bayan Laban sa Hapon (People's tive will they be offered. The federal government to feed our Continued on page 71 nationals during the war, which reached the Anti-Japanese Army). he1-e without any political 1ights. REYNALDO 0. YANA The business of the Legislature should be to safeguard the Philippines only because the Americans were Even before the Japanese invaded the Philip collective wealth of the -people and the Common;calth in there, and the Japanese were their enemy. pines, the Fi I ipino communists had pledged sup Bob deserves credit, too general in order that they could reap the most benefits out of And yet a year after the war, the U.S. Con port for the U.S. and were already asking for Dear Edi tor: Plan to provide easier access 'l"'0L"97 ft\\'{.<.l'BI \Tu!·G\is,rr. such wealth. ' gress passed a bill that denied to some 200,000 weapons from MacArthur, who denied their re GOV. FROILAN C.Tenorio, and lower rates to all the ' Pkasing business and any other special interest groups for Filipino veterans the benefits their American quest. Special Assistant Dave Ecret, people of Guam and the political gain should nowhere be high on top of any lawmaker's comrades received. "A few months later," says Teodoro L. Locsin and W ,1shi ngton attorney Tom CNMI. Rr>,c.E RELf>..1\0NS ?,EP.,LLY agenda. Five decades later, President George Bush, Jr., "the Japanese army was in Manila and the Crowe all deserve credit for The Tenorio and Gutierrez Hf'.VE lMPRoVED ... TEN himself a WWII veteran, learned about the Americans were in Australia, leaving the Filipi their efforts on behalf of the administrations and Ecret and '(EARS A,ij;o 1 NE.VER shabby treatment of the Filipino veterans, nos with nothing, as Sonny Corlcone said, but CNMI in telecommunications Kelley have had their differ WoULO HAVE' STo?PEtl 1° and signed a special immigration law that their 'dicks in their hands·· and a promise in their issues. ences on telecommunications CHAT WITH THE VAL.Er! /tftlarianas 'Variet~~ allowed the Filipinos to migrate to the United hearts that MacArthur would return." However, as one who is issues, but, as someone who States. As of last year, a special report in a Serving the Commonwealth lo~ 25 years It was the Huks who led the armed resistance aware of some of the back has known "Bombastic" Bob Manila newspaper said more than 24,000 vet I· Published Monday to Friday By Younis A,rt Stu~io, Inc. , against the invaders, carrying on "one of the ground involved, I would like or, as he prefers, "Phone" Bob erans have been given U.S. citizenship since greatest guerilla wars in history." Highly-disci to thank someone who has yet for several years, he deserves Publlshers: the law took effect. Abed and Paz Younis plined, and intensely motivated, the Huks kept to receive any public credit credit too. None of them, however, received the G.I. "the Japanese grip on the country unsteady here for his important behind Rafael H. Arroyo .••.••Editor benefits that they were asking for in the first throughout the Occupation and collaboration the scenes role in these mat Thank You Bob. place, and they're as poor and as disillu P.O. Box 231, Saipan MP 96950-0231 Member of ists on tenterhooks." ters: telecommunications con Tel. (670) 234-6341175781979719272 __ The Associated Press (AP) __ sioned as they were before migrating. The Hu ks repeatedly pestered the Japanese sultant Bob Kelley of Guam. The next Lime you're in Fax: (670) 234-92'/1 ll!UHA SINCE ltU Meanwhile, a U.S. congressman has as and, unlike the other guerilla outfits, endeared Even before the Tenorio ad town, I'll buy you some "ugum f'i\n~AlrONAL © 1997, Marianas Variety U\!J tJEWSPAPEA sured the hunger strikers in Leyte that Con themselves to the Filipino masses who were ministration came into the of pugua" from Martha's from All Rights Reserved -.,,..__ I/If • 'ASSOCJAT!Ofl gress would soon pass a bill granting them bearing the brunt of the Occupation. fice, Kelley was advocating the savings in my long dis equal benefits. Of course, he added, ir may Continued·~o_n_p_a_g_e~7~1 the importance of rate . inte tance bills. gration and inclusion in the North American Numbering PHILIP SWETT ____ FRIDA_Y, JULY 4,_ 1997 :MARIANA~VARIE'fX_l'-IE_\VSff\lD yr~"!_~} 6-MARIANAS VARIETYNEWSAND VIEWS-FRIDAY-JULY 4, 1997 NANP does not guarantee To effect compliance with US minimum wage: access to 800 num.bers--MTC /Jfvour HealthMIMW By Mar-Vic C. Munar em Marianas-or any other Privacy at Emergency Dept write local wage law' Variety News Staff part of the country for that THE CNMI's entry into the matter-calls from that area By Stephan Samoyloff, MD By Zaldy Dandan Woodruff said. in interstate commerce or with upon the request of the Senate Northern American Number will not go through. Forthe Variety Vari$/y News Staff He said even under the nega more than $500,000 in annual president who, on Wednesday, 'Ji ing Plan Jocs not guarantee.: '"For example. a business THE EMERGENCY Dcpw1ment at the Commonwealth Health Center is a THE perception that the tive scenarios mentioned by the gross revenues.'' announced that senators will . ! toll-free access to 800 num may only want to accept 800 place of many diffe1ing mooJs mid circumstances. For some, a trip tu the CNMI's minimum wage rate of Hay Report on the annual 30 Woddruff said employers ex- reject any proposal to rollback bers. accorJing to Del Jenkins. calls from the Los Angeles emergency room is almost a social event You accompany somebody from $3.05 an hour is "not enough" cents hi'ke until the local wage empt for the federal rate must the 15-cent wage hike. general m:111ager or metropolitan area. A caller in your family who is ill, sit in the waiting room watching television and chatting could be solved not by a wage reaches the federal level, the still pay a minimum wage set by The governor, for his part, said 1\1 icr.onc s i a 11 Tc kcom mun ica - San Francisco will not be able with other visitors. For bystanders, the emergency department is an exciting hike but by rewriting the local garment industry would remain the state. he will tell the people ··who to place. Here you can see policemen, firefighters, doctors and nurses, even lab tions Corp. to reach that toll-free number, wage l~w, Senate legal counsel in the CNMI until 2002. The Senate legal counsel's blame" for the resulting increase technicians with long whitecoaL~andeven longernccdles, the kind of the thing Jcnkins issued the statement even though he is in the same Steve Woodruff said. He added, "(T)he construc memo was prepared Monday in housing construction costs. you St-'C on network television Thursday nights. It surely must be irresistible --·------, ycstcrJ:1) to cl:lrify public state,'; Jenkins explained. In a memo to Senate Presi tion industry was described as to watch everything that is being done to a particulw· person. "misconcqition·· anJ "confu The MTC chief said the in dent Jesus R. Sablan, Woodruff merely as being 'more vulner sion" about the ne\1' telecom ternational 800 service be able' than the hotel industry, I But, put yourself in the patient's slippers, as they say. Imagine if that was said the current CNMI wage Tenorio's counsel: Skip munication system in the tween the Northern Marianas which the report indicated could you in the bed. law should take into' account Commonwealth. Def Jenkins and the U.S. mainland has the cost.s of food, lodging, trans probably weather the increases oral arguments in case', NANI' simplifies Jong dis been operational since 1992, I can' tcountthenumberof timesl have tried to talk withorexamineapatient portation and other benefits fairly well." tance cal Is through the I pl us but the companies that have Competition By Ferdie de la Torre Michael White be taken off-cal collect calls. during a crisis and looked up to see another patient or somebody from their alien workers get. Steve Woodruff dialing system. '"It is blatantly untrue that decided to accept toll-free family staring around the curtain at us. And then, when I ask people to leave, He said under the federal As to the governor's argument Variety News Staff endar. During NANP Day celebra the residents of the Northern calls from the islands do so on I'll often get hurt looks from them, as ifwe had insulted somebody. minimum wage law, these costs (CNMI) minimum wage law in that the I 5-cent hike in the con GOV. Froilan Tenorio asked the "Of course, if the court wishes tion TuesJay. Gov. Froilan C. Marianas would ever have ac a "non-published basis," are taken into account, unlike in this manner would merely fix struction industry will translate Superior Court yesterday to dis to hear oral argument we would be pleased to appear," Goldberg Tenorio announced that "One cess to every toll-free 800 Jenkins said. The emergency department is named that way because it is designed to the CNMI law. in law what the Hay Report into a$ I increase in labor costs, pense with the oral argument Plus opens up the door to 800 number in the United States "This means that they do not provide specialized care to people during a crisis, and by definition, a crisis is "What the (CNMI) needs, says (local) employers are, for Woodruff said "this could only pertaining to his motion for re said in his request. numbers." they see advertised on televi want their numbers given out a time of high emotion. For exwnple, the cases include things like assault therefore, is not a cancellation the most part, already doing, it be true if there were no compe consideration on Special Judge Lawyer Jeanne Rayphand, ··And equally important," sion ... Jenkins said in a letter to the general public because victims, people suffering with severe pain, people intoxicated from alcohol or (of the wage hike)," he added, could be accomplished with tition in the construction indus Benjamin B.J. Cruz's ruling. through counsel Theodore R. Mitchell. sued Tenorio question Tenorio said in his speech. sent to the Variety, explain they only want to accept toll drugs, people close to death and even some who have already passed. These but allowing local.employers to little or no adverse economic try." Assistant Atty. Gen. Robert "my communications experts ing how the 800 system works. free calls from a limited num are difficult times,evenembarrassing, for some people. !tis for this reason that add the costs of the benefits impact," Woodruff said. In a competitive industry, he Goldberg, counsel for Tenorio, ing the governor's illegal repro the doctors and nurses who work there rry hard to keep onler. gramming and expenditure ac say that the One Plus system "We also want to make it ber of people with whom they they give to the total amount of Given added, the 15-cent hike should said in the interests of judicial tions involving over $8 million will greatly increase the ease clear .... that toll-free 800 ser are already doing business," wages their alien workers re He added that the Hay result in no more than I 7 cents economy, the governor "con Would you like to have a group of yow·neighbors, co-workers, or complete in public funds. · in which NM! companies can vice has nothing to do with the Jenkins explained. ceive. Report's analysis of local wage per hour increase in labor costs. sents to submission of the mo strangers listening in as the doctor asked very personal questions about your Cruz issued a decision last Jo businesses in the rest of the North American Numbering Jenkins said MTC "has done Woodruff cited the Hay Group rates took the 15-cent wage hike Likewise, Woodruff said it is tion on the papers." family life or personal habits? I don't think so. In fact, one of the complaints month ordering the chief execu U.S. and vice versa ... Plan."Jenkins said. its part and fully complied with report which stated that alien for construction and garment not true that the federal mini "The record on this threc-ycar people have offered in letters to the CHC is that they are afraid their privacy tive to pay $12.4 million to the Taking a cue from the NANI'. he added, is nothing the wishes of the local govern workers in the· CNMI are al workers as a given. mum wage does not apply on old case is voluminous and oral might be compromised while they arc there CNMI for··misspendinggovem governor's announcement, more than a dialing pattern which ment in bringing NANP to our ready earning the equivalent of The hike, which Gov. Froilan some U.S. states, as some have argument would not shed new customers quickly picked up does not automatically lower long islands at a cost to our company 1 light on these matters," Goldberg ment funds:· I would like to recommenJ to people to rry hard to respect other people's the federal minimum wage of C. Tenorio and other House argued. their phones to place 800 calls. of over $4 million." 1 Supreme Court Chief Justice distance rate. privacy in the following ways: $5.05 an hour when the costs of members )¥ant suspended, took "(T)he U.S. minimum wage stated. tapped Special Judge White to Many were JisappointcJ as He explained that the businesses However, he said, customers food, lodging, transportation effect Tuesday. applies everywhere in the 50 Accordingly, the government they got only recorJed mes arc experiencing problems plac I handle the case after Superior that set up these numbers "which I. lfyou arc looking for a family member. pleas;e a,k at the window instead and other benefits are take into "Nothing in the Hay Report states, but it does not apply to lawyer asked the Superior Court sages tha! say their calls could ing long distance calls because Court judges recused themselves 1 are in effect automatic collect calls of walking 1ight in and searching eve1y bed. account. recommended the deferment or every employer," he said. I that the July 17 hearing on the not get through. determine the areas from where some carriers have yet to iron out "Since a rewriting of the cancellation of this increase," "It applies only to enterprises · before Special Judge from presiding the action. Here's why: The businesses they wam to accept calls. problems with their systems. (See 2. Pleas;e keep your small child1en out,ide in the waiting room. Tiiey often that own the XOO numbers they ··If a business does not want to full text on the Letterto the Editor have short attention spans mid like to wander where they shouldn 'L -· dialed Jo not want to accept pay for calls from the North- section) --- 3. We request that visitors arc kept to one person at a time. The visitors arc -- kindly a,ked to stay with the patient and to not wander the halls. This is not rt ~,t.. cc~ t~- G~ Ht1-lel, only for the patient's privacy, but to keep passages clear in case another Man loses some 120 CDs to thief emergency arises. Having six or seven EM J1 ~,t.. ~ • , A 49-year-old man complained year-old man said his car battery No other details were given. J'ulye that unidentified person!s stole was stolen from his vehicle parked In Vicente, a 34-year-old , his 120CD'sattheirresidcnce in at the residence in Kannat Tabla woman said burglar/s stole her people blocking a doo1way can make it difficult for technicimis to get an (Sunday) Chalan Kanoa Wednesday night. Wednesday morning. TV set and cassette player at Xray or blooJ test done. Police said burglar/s broke into Meanwhile, the police are also their residence Monday after 4. Please don't use the automatic doors at the parking loL These arc for the MENU the man "s house and also got investigating a forgery and theft noon. ·:r · away S48 cash. case which was reported Wednes The case was placed under fur mnbulance and hospital staff. 11:00AM - 14:00PM • Salad In other police report, a 40- day morning. ther police investigation. (FDT) • Tamala, Asparagus, Broccoli, Potato, Ham & Scrambled Eggs, On beh,tlf of all our patient\, I Lliank you for being considerate. Cold Beef. Tuna, Clain, Salmon, Cabbage, Lettuce, Wakame Seaweed, Cucumber, elc .... · Adult ·Ii"• Teppan, Grill :.·, c.SaipatU Sirloin Sleak, Lobsler, Grilled Fish, Shrimps, Japanese Style Omelet, Chicken Teriyaki, Chow Mein $20.00 Sushi 0 Nigiri-Sushi (Tuna, Shrimps Squid) Fulokami, lnarisushi RATES: ~ Sashlml C\~o §ran£ q/oteG Tuna, Squid, Local Shrimps $ 5.00 -$100.00 • $5.00 minimum 0;7~~" Child Tenpura Shrimps Fish Vegetable, Fried Chicken O • Nimono $101.00 -$200.00 5% of Iace value of check I $f0.00 : .JAPANESE.FOOD.·.·· Taro, Pumpkin, Fish, Sunomono, Ohotashi, Subula, Chawanmushi, elc .... $201.00 Up • $10.00 or 3°/o of face value Noodles Cold Soumen, Hot Udon Rice of check (which ever is greater) Plain Rice. Takikomi, Okayu, Rice Balls Soup '{),e, '"A,.. ftkt lunch ef/Ju Miso Soup, Crear Shorl-Necked Clam Soup BUSINESS HOURS: 10:00 AM - 2:00 AM DAILY Fruit Teppan-yaki? Melon, Pineapple, Walermelon, Orange, Grapefruil, Banana KINDS OF CHECKS: Kanml Sushi? Jelly, Mizugashi, Japanese Confeclionery Sashimi? Drinks Social Security Pension Beer, Orange, Pineapple Juice, lcetea, Coffee Treasury Bills Tenpura? Postal Money Order Japanese Restaurant Teppanyaki AO! Tel. 234-6601 (Extention 132) FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1997 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-9 8-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY- JULY·~~~------4. 1997 Apat·ang to hotels: Observe wage law CDA sues Guerrero Bros. By Ferdie de la Torre GBI sought a revolving line of credit said, the Guerreros each executed a personal guaranty in ·favor of By Zaldy Damian Variety News Staff and a direct loan from the Bank of CDA in order to induce BOS to Variety News Staff THE COMMONWEALTH Devel Saipan (BOS) for the Tinian projccL REPRESENTATIVE David M. opment Authority has filed a lawsuit The bank requested GBI to secure a loan S 1.3 million to GB!. against two former lawmakers for loan guarantee from CDA. As further security for CDA 's Apatang yesterday "reminded" tl1e .'' i Hotel Association of the Nrnthem alleged non-payment of $1.3 million The Public School System (PSS) guaranty of the line of credit, GBI Mrniana Islands that locals work.inn loan. notifiedGBIVicePresidentandGen executed a receivables and inven for the hotels should j:,e given the sam~ CDA, through counsel Tred R. eral Manager Pedro Guenero that it tory security agreement on April benefits alien workers receive. Eyerly, took brothers, frnmerscnator intended to award a contrJ.ct to GBI 9; 1996. Apatang (R-Saipan), in a letter to Heiman R. Guell'ero and former for the construction of Tinian High Pursuant to the agreement, GBI Hotel Association. of tl1e Northern House Speaker Pedro R. Guenero to School. gave CDA a lien and security Mariana Islands (Hanmi) president Supe1ior Cou1t. PSS and GBI executed in 1993 a interest in the collateral, Eyerly RonaldSablan,saidsomelocalswork Also named as defendants we1e conn·act which was to be effective explained. In Sept. 1996, the US Depart ing in hotels have complained that theGue1TeroBrothers,Inc.,GBISec- from July 26, 1993 to Jan. 18, 1995. Pedro R. Guerrero Herman R. Guerrero they're not getting the benefits tliey're 1etary Pilar M. Gue1rero and Lucy P. Under the c0ntract, PSS will pay a ment oflnterior instrncted Finance entitled to. Guenero. total of _$3,849,400 for the comple Eyerly said CDA 's liability was lim guarantee an increase in the line of not to process any further progress 'We are all concerned about the David M. Apatang CDAasked the Superior Court to tion of the project. ited to 90% of the total principal credit to $1,300,000. payments to GB! until outstand minimum wage," Apatang said. The law, Apatang said, aims to order the defendants to pay 90% of On Nov. 8, 1993, Eyerly said BOS balance due BOS. The CDA Board of Directors ing payroll issues had been re However, he added, many employ bring local workers up to the U.S. the lineofcieditfortl1e piincipal sum approved two loan agreements in Eyerly said a fee simple mortgage agreedtoguarantee90%ofthelineof solved. ers may not be aware that Public Law minimum wage rnte, or be given a of $1,299,874, plus accrned interest favor of GBI. First, a $500,000 re (firstmortgage )securing CDA 's guar credit increase to $1,300,000 subject In Oct. 1996 BOS called on CDA to pay GBI's indebtedness , ,J' 9-71, which took effect on Nov. 16, differential equivalent to benefits pro of$76,698.69asofMay 15, 1997. volving line of credit which was to antee to BOS was also executed on to enumerated provisions, said the complaint. pursuant to its guarantee on the --..,___;_- 1995, requires that all benefits given to vided to alien workers. The plaintiff also demanded tl1at expire on March 8, 1995. Dec. 17, 1993. alien workers-food, housing, trans Apatang said he was told by a law the defendants' mortgaged 1eal prop The line of credit was guaranteed He pcinted our that the mortgage One such provision, however, re line of credit, Eyerly said. --- pcrtation, healtl1 insurance and medi - yer that if an employer has not been city be sold at a public auction and tl1e by CDA and by Pedro Guerrero and by the Gue1reros authorized CDA to quired GBI to provide additional On Nov. 19, I 996, GB! discon cal expenses--or its cash equivalent, paying this differential equivalent, he mo1tgased chattels and other collat GB IPresidentHermart Guerrero, said foreclose on the property in case GBI real estate collateral to support tinued its work on the Tinian must also be provided to local workers or she may be obligated to provide eral seized rn1d sold by CDA. Eyerly.. . defaulted on its payments to BOS. the guarantee for increased line of project. who are paid less than the fedeml compensation relroactively. Eyerly in the complaint stated that The second· loan amounting Defendants mortgaged to CDA credit, Eyerly said. CDA complied with the guaranty, minimum wage rate of$5.05 an hour. Employers, according to Apatang, in Sept. 1992 GBI submitted a bid of $300,000, guaranteed by Pedro their interest in two hectares ofland in Based upon CDA's guarantee, andpaidB0S$1, 169,887.13onNov. should contact the Labor and Immi $4,584,162. for the constmction of Guen-ero and Herman Guerrero, was Garapan. the BOS agreed lo increase GBI's 27, 1996, he said. gration Department if they have any the Tinian High School. to be re-paid lo BOS by March 8, Pedro Guerrero then executed a line of credit. to $1,300,000. Inconsiderationofpayment,Eyerly questions. TI1efollowingmonth,GBifiledan 1995. guaranty in favor of CDA. In the On Aug. 4, 1995, CDA and said BOS assigned to CDA its right As of presstime last night, the Vari application to CDA for a di1ect lorn1 CDA and BOS executed in 1993 a document, Pedro guaranteed prompt BOS executed a new guaranty and interest in various asset, of GBI. ety has yet to receive a return call from of $3CXJ,OOO mid a line credit of guamnty of the loan of $800,000 payment on the loan extended by the under which CDA guaranteed a In executing the assignment, CDA the Hanmi president. $500,CXlO, said Eyerly. made by the Bank to GBI. BOS on Nov. 8, 1993 in case of loan of $1.3 million to GB!. The acknowledged BOS retained interest P.L. 9-71 is the "Resident Workers Simultaneously, the lawyer said, Under the terms of the guaranty, default by the Guerrero Brothers. liability of CDA was limited to of$129,987.46,or 10%, in the prom Fair Compensation Act of 1995," the On Feb. 21, 1995, Eyerly said the 90% of the total balance due, issory notes and security insuuments P.O. BOX 331, SAIPAN, MP 96950 bill for which is H.B. 9-360, intro · Guerreros entered a mortgage exten Eyerly said in the complaint. assigned to CDA, the lawyer said. PHONE: (670) 234-6609; 7666; 8779 duced by Rep. Manuel A. Tenorio(R sion agreement which noted that The guarantee agreement was CDA wrote to GBI on Dec. 13, FAX: (670) 234-8720 Saipan) and six other representatives. Torres eyes 'education CDA's guarantee to the BOS had secured by a fee simple mortgage I 996, demanding that GBI pay been extended so that the new due which authorized CDA to fore . $1,299,874.58 plus interest on or be date was May 26, 1995. close on the property in case GBI fore Jan. 13, 1997. 11 without a classroom' On April 7, 1997, Eyerly said 14 Pacific . i PSSupcnGBI'srequest,approved defaulted on its payments to BOS. em Islands whichatpresentdoesn 't a new completion date of Aug. 31, To further induce CDA to guar PSS notified GB! that PSS con . island heads have any school facility. 1995. antee the in~reased line of c;edit, tract was terminated for default. "We don't have facilities and The lawyer said GBI asked that the Guerreros executed a guar Eyerly said the defendants are ·to attend teacherstherebutthatdoesn'tmean CDA extend its guarantee of the line anty collateral mortgage on Aug." in default and have failed to make ) thatwccannotprovideeducationto of credit on $800,000 to Aug. 31, 8, 1995, said the CDA counsel. the full payment, or bring their Tokyo meet .. students up there," Tones said. 1995 and requested that the agency Finally,onAug.8, 1995,Eyerly loan account current with CDA. In the future, Torres said, there LAWN MOWER, 20" BLADE, could be no need to build class HONOLULU (Pacnews}--The roomsand students would just have 3.5 HP Reg. S219.95 SALE $175.96 leaders of 14 Pacific Islands nations togotoasatellitecenterwherethey are being invited by the Japanese LAWN MOWER, 23" BLADE, could get long distance-education. government to a first-ever summit The article in the Atlantic 3.75 HP Reg. 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Pryor told the PACNEWS Hono through a satellite ·system, envi PSS is a recipient of the national lulu Bureau tliat Cook Islands Piime Featuring sioning future "education wi thou ta government's technology granL It AZROCK VINYL FLOOR TILES, 45 SF PER BOX Minister SirGeoffrey Henry will take classroom." recently received $27,000from the ALL PATIERN - Reg. $44.95/Bx NOW $34.99/Bx part in a July 15 meeting with the Your Favorite Dishes and Treqts: "Technology will be here to stay U.S. Dep,rrtment of Education for Jap,meseAmba,sa OPEN YOUR INDIVIDUAL CHECKING OrEN To A.LL GuAM, C.N.M.I. oR SAVINGS ACCOUNT AND PALAU RESIDENTS. ENTRY AT GUAM SAVINGS THROUGHOUT THE FORMS ARE AVAILABLE AT ANY MONTH OF JULY AND OUR GIFT 1D YOU: Diego T. Benavente GUAM SAVINGS BRANCH. wage hike for construction and gar ENTRY FoRM LIMIT ONE PER ment workers, but failed to get enough PERSON PER DAY. • ~ will buy your first standard safety paper support from the Senate even after check order. garment industry officials reportedly agreed to pay a $500,000 license fee if • Unlimited Traveler's Checks, Cashiers Chechs nlld tl1e wage hike is suspended. Money Orders with No Service Fees for 1 yem: Reven ucs from tl1e Iiccnse fees wou Id tl1cn be used for ti1c school voucher program. · July,.3 : PARADISE BANKING In m1 earlier interview, Benavente ,.,,..~'f;n:m:•, said the wage hike will benefit unem ·.Jft;. lt.wffllrAJJilk~lliftmlJ JUST GOT BETTER ployed locals, particularly those who recently graduated from high school. •6:30-10:30pm • Receive a $10. 00 certificate for He said Gov. Froilan C. 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DFW staff have since moved in proposedp1icedecrea,ecomingwitl1 tions Crnporation's has lowered be continue to provide our customers ..We fully suppo1t the Telecom THE DIVISION of Fish and Wild determine certain fish behavior. poses," he assured. The new building's construction, to the building housing the De- . the implementation of rate integra pany to cover each of iL, subsidi,uy ginning July I, the cost of making with the mostcompetitiveratcsavail life has nxcivcd a new 27-foot Bos 'We are trying to establish why In a related development, Seman he explained, was called for after partment of Lands and Natural. tion, ,L, mm1dated by tl1e Telecom crnporations. munications Act of 1996," MTC's telephone calls to Guam, Hawaii, able in tl1e No1them Maiianas," said Jenkins said ...We do believe it is ton Whaler from the Fedeml Govem fishes are attracted to floating objects. said construction of the $400,CXXJ the old DFW building, also in Resources. munications Act of 1996. GTECor('JOration 'sthrce long-dis Abska mid the U.S. mainlm1d. MTC General Manager Del E. ment which will be used for its Is it becat,1se of the shade it gives ? new DFW building in Lower Base is Lower Base, was condemned in "We need space," Seman said. Rate integration iscuncntl y sched umcc service subsidim-ies - MTC, impo1tantforGTE'sseparJtelyoper 1l1e p1icc of calls to the 50 states vaiious sea 1cscai·ch projects, DFW Small fishes crowd underneath these now underway and is expected to be 1993 due to supposed health haz The new building, he said, wi!J Jenkins. uled to take effect on August I • GTE I-lawaiim1 Tel ,md GTE Long ating Jong distance comp,mics to be will drop from 99 cents per minute to Deputy Di1cctor Richaid B. Seman buoys which then attract biggerfishes. completed by Nov. ards and noise pollution. be made of steal beams to mini "AnJ it's precisely because of our GTE Crnporation, MfC's paicnt Distance - each wm1t lo file separate able to file t,,-uiffs tl1at accurately re just 65 cents per minute -a 34 percent said. . 'Fishennen are known to look for "We are receiving enough fonds The old office stands in the mize cost and expedite completion. ongoing commitmenr to stay com company,h,L,filedapetition witl1 the tm·iffs u1ilored to their own mm-keL,. flect the conditions in the mai-ket, we savings, MTC said in a news release. In an· interview, Seman said the floating objects when trying to catch petitive that our customers have seen FCC that questions the way rate inte Following a motion GTE filed in inJividually serve." Callers dialing numbers on Guam vessel will enable govemmenttothor fish," explained Seman. the overall cost of calling the main gration is being implemented. the U.S. Coult of Appeals in the Jenkins cmpha,ized the need for will see the cost of their connections oughly evaluate -Fish Aggregation Aside from the FADs project, the land drop at least 75 percent since GTE Crnporation does not agree Disaict of Columbia, the FCC issued MTC. Ji ke·any otherp1ivate business, drop to juit 40 cent, per minute, it 1989." Devices orthose buoys left afloat by vessel, he said, will also be used on USDA announces final rules with the FCC' s rnling that it, the a statement on June 26 in which it said to fully cover tl1e cosL, of its opera added. the Jagoon. while oolste1ing efforts similar unde1takings in Rota and This reduction is not part of the commission, will only accept one it will presentarnlingon the question tions. on .otl~cr ,u1facc fish snidies~ Tini:m. on new conservation program. WASHINGTON - Agriculture ranchers throughout the country million authorized through 2002, CNMI students back after Okinawa program visit Public tours of USS Thatch Secretary Dan Glickman an address some of their most press EQIP is USDA 's largest conser . ' . TI·!EREWILLbe public tours of the USS Thatch today, tomorrow and Saturday nounced that the final rules for ing natural resource concerns - vation program designed to con FIVE students from the CNMI CNMI to Okinawa. ~------=::. : as pan of Liberation Day '97 festivities, organiz.ers of the events said. USDA 's new Environmental including soil erosion, water qual serve and improve land while it last month travelled to Okinawa The CNMI Governor's Office : Toe shuttle service schedule is a, follows: Quality Incentives Program ity and quantity. wildlife habitat, remains in agricultural produc via Japan Airlines for a five day coordinates . the selection of the 60 pax max Pickup Drop off Time (EQIP) are already out. wetlands, and grazing lands, said tions. exchange program sponsored by students and Japan Airlines and Smiley Cove Marina 01 :00 pm pier-return 01: 10 pm The new rnles aimed at making Glickman in a news release. EQIP provides cost-share as the Micronesia Repatriation As Continental Micronesia help in Smiley Cove marina · 02:00 pm pier-renim 02: 10 pm long-term conservation contracts .. Healthier lands, cleaner wa sistance for up to 75 percent oft he sociation of Okinawa. accommodating discounted air Smiley Cove Marina 03:00 pm pier/back 03: IO pm anlfunding available to farmers ter and better wildlife habitat on cost of certain conservation prac The Association of over nine line tickets. The public is advi:;ed to exercise caution when climbing on ooard the USS and ranchers to improve the envi private lands will benefit all tices. such as grassed waterways. hundred members have. been The schedule of the students while TI1atch. Parent, and guardim1s are asked to ensure young children are supervised ronmental health of the nation's Americans for generations to filter strips, manure management travelling to the CNMI every inOkinawaincludessightseeingtour at all times. TI1e pick up ,md drop off point is at Smiley Cove Marina and Charlie farm and ranch land. come," he said. facilities, capping abandoned /j year for the past 28 years for a of the many historical sites, a visit and Dock pier. TI1is schedule is subject to change when needed. ..EQIP will help farmers and With an annual budget of $200 wells. and wildlife habitat en memorial service at Last Com tourof one of the high schools, a visit hancement. mand Post to pay tribute to their to the Okinawa Prefecture Govem Incentive payments can be ll fellow countrymen who died in ment Office and at1endance to a me made for up to three years to en the CNMI during World War II. morial service. courage producers to perform land According to a news release, CNMI Delegates for this year's @~~. management practices such as the Associatio"n 's mission is to student exchange program were nutrient, manure, irrigation wa promote peace and unity be Karen C. Duenas, Lonny Ann ter. wildlire, and integrated pest tween the people of the CNMI Delos Reyes, Jacqueline San ~ mana!.!ement. and Okinawa. Nicolas, Clotilde SN. Rosario and Tot7ll cost-share and incentive In an effort to promote peace, Jennifer Hocog. payments arc limited to$ I 0,000 the MRAO established the stu The five students were escorted ..,_. per person per year and $50.000 dent exchange program since by Ms. Catherine Sonoda of Pa for the length of the contract, I 988 ir.iviting sn1dents from the cific Development, Inc. HAPPY 3rd which can run from 5 to IO years. for fiscal year 1997, at least 65 percent of the funds will be used in locally-identified priority ar eas and up to 35 percent can be used for other significant state wide natural resource concerns. ANNIVERSARY~~~~ Fa1mers and ranchers who agree MICRONESIAN BROKERS (CNMI), INC. to address the primary conserva tion concerns in the priority ares I will be given preference for an ~ EQlP contract. Proudly salutes and congratulates The program is limited to per sons who are engaged in live l stock or agricultural production. Nationally, one-hair of the funds ' an:: targcteJ lo livestock-related natural resources needs and the reminder to other significant con servation priorities associated with crop production. The 1996 Farm Bill prohibits provitling EQIP cost-share assis aao@CP fil[~J0 ~~~ tance to large confined livestock operations for the construction of ~ YOUR FAMILY ~ animal waste storage or treatment facilities. on their SHOPPING The final rule defines a large CENTER confined livestock operation as one with more than 1,000 animal units. EQIP was crcate·cJ in the 1996 Farm Bill and combines into a 3rd Year Anniversary Celebrati single program the functions of several previous conservation pro Proud Distributor of: grams - the Agricultural Con servation Program, Agricultural ~ DURACELi! Tasters Water Quality Incentives Pro Mauna L.oa ~ Gillefle Choice. HaLzna's gram, the Colorado River Salin All thl' goodnl'SS uf Ilawaii ity Control Program, and the Great WATERMAN@~ plains Conservation Program. ~~ Kitchen For more information, produc • "S'llllsh1i1e_) Gerber. Armour-Dial Ox&Palm .~lnclloir FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1997 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-17 Up"1ard Bound students to attend Univ. of Hawaii Hilo National Honors Society, cur This section, Around the Islands covers community stories, local events, rently a treasurer of the Sopho and cultural activiUes. Should you have a.story you would like to share, more class, member of MHS or an event that needs to be covered, contact Laila at 234-6341 Close Up Club. She attended this year's Close Up conference in Washington, NMC president raps D.C., and a volunteer of the CNMI Chapter Red Cross. Plan for Veterans' delay of new program Diana reads novels, cooks lo cal cuisine, and plays volley By Mar-Vic C. Munar possiblc this past year because the re ball. Variety News Staff newal MOU has apparently been mis ceinetery unveiled THE NORTHERN Marianas Col placed somewhere."' McPhetres said in The third participant, Ian lege anJ the Public School Svstem ,dune 25 letter to Torres. Mendiola. is son of Dav id Ian Mendiola Lennie Kalen Diana Matagolai Mendiola and Victoria K. GOVERNORFroilanC.Tenorioyes landscaping that will separate the forged an agreement last year to Torres was not available for com terday unveiled plans foranewCNMI THREE CNMI students under ance, and personal .financial veternns site from the Japanese me revive the 2 + 2 program which ment. Mendiola. Veterans Cemetery to be located in . morial grounds. ll'ould allow eligible students to ·n,c MOU was a duplicate of tl1e the Upward Bound Program aid counseling. Ian hopes to become a marine Marpi. The faci Ii ty will address the CNMI graduate sooner li1an schedu Jed. 1992 version of tl1e progrm11 which have been selected to attend the Kalen,, is the youngest daug·h- biologist. The UH-Hilo Upward Tenorio placed a priority on the veterru1s needs through the year2017. - ll1e program 11',LS supposed to be mranged for collaboration between University ofHawai'-Hilo 1997 ter of Dolores Manibusan of Bound Math and Science sum NMC ai1d PSS allowing high school development of the program that is It will have a capacity of l,OOJ i1nplemented for school year I 996- Upward bound Mathematics and Chalan Kanoa and David Kalen 1997. but did not take place because the students to emn both college and high mer program gives Ian the op sponsored by the CNMI and Veter burials and crypt interments. Memor.mdu m ofU mlcrstanding signed school credit for courses taken at NMC. NMC officials and Board of Regents discuss the DALS review with visiting USDA official, Dr Ted Wilson (2nd Science Regional Center. of Tanapag. portunity to take various sci ans Affairs Cemetery System in Initially, an open air committal between NMC ,md PSS h,LS vet to be McPhetres said she has met witl1 from right) yeterday at NMC. Photo by Lalla Younis Lennie Kalen and Diana Kalen is currently a member ence courses. Washington, D.C. shelter planned for future conver signed bv PSS CommissionerWilli,u11 Marianas High School principal Jim Matagolai, both sophomores of Lifers Club at MHS. This is Ian's second year in The Governor's commitment and sion as a chapel will be the primary By Laila C. Younis Torres. itccording to NMC President Denight "whoscemsgenuinelyenthu duct areviewoftheDALS' thrusts and Processing Dr. Edward (Ted) from Marianas High School, She plays volleyball, writes the University of Hawaii-Hilo the efforts of the CNMI Veterans structure. Variety News Staff ,\gncs l\lcPhetre~. sia.,tic about renewing the 2 + 2 pro towards the agricultural develop Wilson arrived Wednesday and will attend the program from poems, and spends time at the Upward Bound Math and Sci Committee have spearheaded thepro The administration building will ~Ille signing of the memorandum. grmn." gram overthepastsixtydays, accom also house an interpretive exhibit in A TOP official from the United ment in the American Pacific yes will be attending meetings and June 15-July 25. beach. She said under the pro- ence summer program. McPhcu·e:, sai~I. would haw .. resulted ··we at the college also hope that this plishing what originally began as a the military history of the CNMI States Department of Agriculture terday. tours of the department's divi Ian Mendiola, a junior at gram she expects "to experi- in m,mvstudcnb getting ahead stm1 on spirit of collaboration between out in "I hope this year's program is grant in 1994 but did not progress highlighting on Operation Forager in visited Northern Marianas Col USDA Deputy Administrator sions and facilities with focus on Tinian High School is partici- ence college life outside the as challenging as last year's,. he tl1<:ir college edu'catio~ while still in stitutions to help the students can once lege Department of Agriculture until the Governor, designated it as a the Battle of Saipan. high schoci ... again go forward,' McPhetres told of Agricultural Systems, Plant & the ADAP project. , pating in the Summer Program Commonwealth." said" and Life Sciences (DALS) to con- Animal Production, Protection "I am looking at the ADAP priority. Currently, there are no facilities in ~·Unforn111atcly tl1at lX!ndit w,L, not Torres. I for the second ye.ar. Matagolai, the eldest of Upward Bound Program, The $4.7 million cost is shared by the Marpi memorial area fill the role program which brings together This Summer Program is de- daughter of Terry Suwom of federally funded by U.S. De the VA System and the CNMI, in of an information center. the five !and grant institutions in signed to assist students who Hawaii and Alex Matagolai of partment of Education, is a cluding taking advantage of coopera CNMifamilies whose veterans are the Pacific. My interest is to fur ~ are interested.in pursuing col- Guam. highly successful, college tion with planned private sector im interred on other islands can choose therencourage institutions to work 'l lege education in mathemat- "I am excited and nervous at based program of rigorous provement needs at the north end of to either relocate the remains of their ,~ on common interests because re ics and science related areas, the same time. However, I want academic instruction, indi the island. loved ones or elect to have the The site is moved away from the veteran'snameplacedonamemorial sources are limited and it is best to to prepare for and enroll in · to take science classes that will vidual tutoring and counsel Marpi Road, adjacent to the Banzai wall. share," said Dr. Wilson. college-level math and science help me in pursuing my dream ing for low-income, disadvan "I am also interested to see how Cliffs area and the Japanese memori The plan includesasymbolicPeace program.· In addition, stu- to become a doctor specializing taged high students, most of als. Gate and a CNMI veterans memo the Land Grant functions are be dents will receive classroom in pediatrics or gynecology," whom are the first generation ing ca1Tied out, and in particular The masterplan takesadvantageof rial, as well as a flag plaza as focal instruction, mentoring, tutor- Matagolai said. · · of their families to consider the site, and the facility will be the point at the end of the access road to how the institution move towards ing, college and career guid- Diana is a member of MHS post-secondary education. dominant feature in the area, with the site from the main roadway. articulating the programs,'" he added. The Agricultural Development in the American Pacific (ADAP) consists of Land Grant directors from the University of Hawaii, University of .Guam, American Samoa Community College.Col lege of Micronesia and Northern Marianas College. According to a DALS report, e = ADAP is a "mechanism to ad dress common regional client basL:d issues while maintaining cultural, social. economic anJ Fl"w,•a-,·J~ rnvironmental integrity'·. ··our goal is to make sure that I~ all Land Grant institutions arc re ally providing a meaningful ser vice to the people on the islands, On Your and not becoming an academic program,'' said Dr. Wilson. e 'The project is important be cause you don't want lo reinvent the wheel. If another island has J already gone through a process and made an achievement. you 1, E can share that, so..:ad1 island docs ' i not have to make the same mis takes," he added. A special Board of Regents /,(' = l!.. ~· meeting was held for Dr. Wibon ··.i;,,, to be introduced to the Board and '.~;;~ .. 3rd Anniversary Celebration! . From the management & staff of: hear their concerns and ideas about ."?,. DALS projects and prograrns. . ·11 '.J "'Please be very candid with :;\ yourreport. Tell us where we can Pacific World make improvements and how best we can address problems. And also consider our programs, and MICRONESIAN SALES their progress. We need your Enterprises support,,. said NMC Acting Presi Wholesale & Distributor dent Tee Abrah,im~. Located at Lower Base Tel. 234-3532 A final review will be submit Phone: 322°3909/3910/3911 • Fax: 322-3714 ted to the Board of Regents ,1fter Email: [email protected] Dr. Wilson's visit. - FRIDAY.JULY 4, 1997 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-19 18-MARIANAS VARIETY_l\/§\\IS_A_]'/_Q YIEWS-FRIDA Y- JUL y 4. 1997 RP Vice Consul on Usapang Pinoy Fiji MPs OK Constitution change SAIPAN Cable TV announced so far on life in the CNMI 1 ··· .•·.· . . .. ·.. ····· . ·----· ------th'.11 newly appointed Philippine I-le will also speak ab~ut the r·.·.· ....~·:·;.';.Jtl; , ·1r.;.<.J 'JI.·.·. :I..;· :._.,.'I.··.· .. :rl'..·..·.•.· ..i.·1·.· ..·. ,.·.·, -1 Vice Consul Rone!! B. Santos will recent move of the Phir · · : : /· •· 1' ?f: I ·. ·· ' · · .., · L ··· '. SUVA, Fiji (AP) amend the racially biased 1990 Indian population to gain the formation of a multiracial island of Rotuma. ·1ppear o I ti , CNMI' 1 • ippme · ··' ' ·· · · ·· · · ' 1-v · ·. ' . . . 1 ic son Y live Consutate and pluns for the ex- , ; ::{ ' ·· ' · · i f1t;1· · :' · greater political power. Cabinet and permit a non-in Under the amended consti Parliament's lower house consiitution, opening the way F'.lip1no talk show, Usapang pansion of services to the thirty ! :} . digenous Fijian to become tution, the 71 -seat parliament I passed legislation Thursday to for the Pacific nation's laroe The amendments will allow Pmoy, ~n Sunday,. July 6, at 7 thousand Filipino contract work- '. 'tr I! "' prime minister. will comprise 23 indigenous . ! o'clock 111 the .eve111ng. ers throughout the Common- ;J~J A jubilant Prime Minister Fijian seats, 19 Indian seats, The show w1 II focus on the ser- wealth. r.:r:il Sitiv.eni Rabuka said after three for general electors, one vicespe1formedbytheViceCon- Usapang Pinoy, co-hosted by . · wards he would begin plan for Rotumans and 25 open or sul and will review the status of Pastor Gagaring and Ma. ning a multi-party Cabinet common roll seats which any labor talks between representa- Claudette Gasmen-Peters, is the when he returned from a tour race can contest. tives of the CNMI and Philippine CNMI's only live TV talk show of the country next week. The amendments also end officials. f ocusmg· on issues of significant Santos is on his first foreign interest to the Filipino commu- "This will be my first prior the 1990 ban on anyone but an assignment and will be ask~d nity. ity," he told reporters. indigenous Fijian becoming about the impression he has had The guests selected have dis- The passage of the Consti prime minister. tinguished themselves in· their tution Amendment Bill marks The new parliamentary chosen fields including, educa a dramatic political turn make-up will take effect in Wage hike. tion .. government, business and around for Fiji, and for 1999 when the I ife of the cur long overdue, . sports. Rabuka, who in 1987 led two rent parliament comes to an The viewing audience on military coups overthrowing end. Saipan can pose questions during says Mott the show by calling 233-6629 or An elated opposition leader an Indian-dominated govern 233-7350. Viewers on Tinian may ment. J ai Ram Reddy said all races By Jojo Dass call 433-0666. Since 1990, Fiji's constitu could now live together peace Variety News Staff U sapang P inoy is broadcast live tion has ensured the political fully, knowing their future in THE IS-cent wage hike granted to on Saipan Cable TV's Channel domination of indigenous the country was assured. constrnction and gam1ent workers 12 every Sunday at 7 o'clock in Fijians over Indians, who were All 67 votes cast in the was "long overdue," Elwood Mott, the evening, and re-broadcast at 7 Local 5 spokesperson said. first brought to the country House of Representatives sup p.m. on Thursday. Usapang Pinoy co-hosts, Pastor Gagaring and Ma. Claudette Gasmen-Pe;;;-- · "Theeconomyalreadyhasenough last century as indentured la ported the bill. Under the 1990 money to push up wages that's why," borers, and now make up 45 constitution a two-thirds par- he explained. percent of the· population. 1iamentary majority was Mon, inan interview, said the wage The 1990 constitution gave needed for the.bill to be pa~sed. hike, which amounts to about $24 a indigenous Fijians a majority Fiji, a British colony until I 970, month, will help augment the work From rhe managemenr & swff of: of 37 seats in a 70-seat House is expected to regain the inteina ers' cost of living expenses. CoMp,n.~-{ of Representatives. It reserved tional respectability lost in the ·111ese workers are not spending CoNqRA ru IA rioNsl much, butit(raise) will help,"hesaid. only 27 seats for Indians and 1987 coups. Rabuka says he ex Mott.also expressed doubts that Saipan Bus &Transportation Company, Inc. split the remaining six be pects the Commonwealth towel moves to suspend the wage hike will "You Call, We Haul!" tween mixed-race "general come Fiji back into membership succeed . .electors" and the Polynesian in October. "It (hike) is already in place to FOR ALL YOUR TRUCKING NEEDS ·····.·.·· le begin with," he said. I68 :uat' · Let's keep Saipan Clean & Beautiful TI1e Legislature reprntedly is mov ing to have the raise rolled back after last ditch moves to derail it failed. House Speaker Diego Benavente had said House Republicans may agree to suspend thew age hike on the gam1ent sector if foctoiies contJibute Ii $500,000 each, or a total of$ I 5 mil ,·f lion a year, for the school voucher program. For his part, Gov. Froilan Tenoiio is also urging a suspension of the increase for the constJuction work ers. He explained that construction companies will increase their fees to stave off additional expenses that will be incurred in raising wages of their workers by 15 cents. The Department of Labor and Im mih'fation has began directing em ployers to observe the 15-cent wage hike which took effect yesterday. The new increa.,e, according to acting DOU Secretary William A. Jones, will not result to a correspond ,,.,,. i· ~ ing increase in the number wage vio lators. TI1e new wage hik~. observers /),,...., ,/),,£4.12, noted, could hu1t the g,ument w1d contmction indusllies. But Benavente h,L, said the House Republican leadership· "feels" tliat Anniversary Celebration! tl1csesectors"havealreadylx:cngivcn • thechw1ce to lessen the impact"ifthe 111 crcw,c. FIWJ,H<. -dt- ~ ri ~l "{: Workers employed in these indus RATION • uies were being paid $2.95 an hour p1iorto tl1e issu,mce of a DOU notice on tl1e matter. q~/;zam: ======GENPRO Persons employed in non-mini Box 3207, Saipan, MP 96950 U.S.A.· Phone:(670) 288-0740, Fax: (670) 288-3820 INTERNATIONAL INC. mum wage catego1ies such ,L, do i': (. mestic helps, fishem1en ,md fwmers • Crystal Palace • City Trust Bank • -Micro Beach Hotel • i•, ' will also receive a$ l(Xl incn;ase in IMPORT, EXPORT & WHOLESALER Y·•, their $2{Xl monthly salwy. ~- '! ...... '' '.,:' ,· i' !'' I ,f I 'I FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1997 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-21 20-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY- JULY 4, 1997 ------'-----'---- - ·-·-- ...... Palau mulls alien population Estrada challenges Itamos PRESIDENT Kuniwo Nakalllura force member Francis Meym·. who yesterday granted a one-month ex added that the effectiveness of the tension to the government HL,k force President'sexecutiveordcrestablish desl ~is.ies an& labor laws, a news release from the oftl1e National Government. ' ( President's office said. "Accurate date relating to tlie non rd 111e task force, which was estab- r.esident worker population is critical 1ished by executive order to collect to the nation's phmning ,md develop Joseph Estrada Fidel Ramos accurate data relating to the nation's ment for the future," said tlie Presi non-1csident worker population mid dent in his rniginal executive order. MA,NILA, Philippines (AP) -Vice going to run again and we will face SHOPPING .~,sess complim1ce by workers and The order rniginally established a President Joseph Estrada on l11urs each otlier in 1998." CENTER elllploycrs witli Palaurn1 law, has al conclusion date of June 3-; however, daychallenged President Fidel Ramos One group of Ramos suppo1ters, ready made significm1t progress in tlic success of the ta,k force in past to run against him in the l 998election the People's Initiative for Reform, the last seveml weeks, the 1elease weeks fueled the President' sdecision despite a constitutional ban on sec Modernization and Action, has gatli ered about 6 million signatu1es call on your noted. toextend the Iifespanoftlie group and ond terms for presidents. ard S'*ear "'I'm vc1y pleased with tl1e result, to produce comprehensive repon on Estrnda, who belongs to a separate ing fora plebisci teon a charteraniend frolll our field workers." said t,L,k tl1c nation's non-resident workers. party, said in radio interviews tliat ment SHOPPING Ramos is continuing to allow sup The Commission on Election is to CENTER cJ!LnniversargE porters to press for a constitutional discuss tlie group's petition Thurs change so he can run again, while day. From the management & staff of: Embassy building sayingheplanstostepdownwhenhis TI1e Supreme Court, however, has term ends. ruled twice that there is no law tliat Davy's Ramos brushed aside Estrada's allows people's initiatives for consti in Kiribati finished challenge, repeating earlier pro tutional changes. TARAWA (Pacnews}-A new l, will be celebrated during the nouncements that he will step down Estrada's Party of tlie Filipino Wholesalers & Distributor Chinese embassy and residence official opening of the buildings, when his•term expires on June 30, Masses has merged witli two other 1998. opposition groups, .the Nationalist For Food Non-Food. Restaurant Hotel Supplies buildingsinKiribati,costing$US 1.6 Radio Kiribati reports. & & million will be officially opened The two storey-building featur "I have made my position vel)' People's Coalition and tlie Snuggle Afetna Square Bldg. San Antonio Harmon Public Storage Friday. ing red roof and white block walls clear," he said. "Let us also ask, how of the Democratic Filipino, to form a P.O. Box 2073 Saipan, MP96950 P.O. Box 23757 Chinese ambassador in Kiribati, with huge glass windows is near the sure is he that he will be the on eon the united opposition to challenge die Tel: 234-5271 • Fax: 235-5271 Tel: 234-5271 • Ce/: 697227 • Fax: 6496271 Cui Guangjun, said the handing Australian and New Zealrnid High other side?" administration in .next year's elec Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] . over of Hong Kong to the Peoples Commissions. The people ofSouth A single six-year te1m for presi tion. RepublicofChinaatmidnightJuly Trn11wa call it the Bairiki Palace. dents wct, set in the charter after the l11enewoppositionparty,Struggle late strongmmi Ferdinand Mm·cos's of l11e Nationalist Filipino Masses, 20-year rule in an effort to avoid will hold a convention in November future dictators. to choose its standard bearer, Esn11da Estrada, a former actor, town said. mayor and senator, said Ramos "is He said he was confident he will engaged in double-talk, that's why win the party's nomination but we do not know what is the 011th mid pledged to support the party's candi what is not Let him say that he is date if he loses. SHOPPING CENTER ,,, I From the 111a11age111ent & stc!fTo{ Jl'L PHILPAN INTERNATIONAL CORP. WHOLESALER OF ALL KIND OF PHILIPPINE AND OTHER ASIAN PRODUCTS ... From the management & staff of: FOOD AND NON FOOD GROCERY ITEMS. i . . •' ..... Prince Charles reacts as he greets a Filipino we I/wisher before visiting the oldest church in the Philippines Thursday. Prince Charles arrive.d GUARANTEED THE LOWEST IN PRICE WHOLESALER IN THE ISLAND by royal yacht in a Manila port with Hongkong's former governor Chns Patten, two days after their somber departure from Britain's last colony LOCATED AT AS LITO ROAD. arianas 'Vc!riet~~ in Asia. AP 22-MARIANAS_"\/ ARIE'IY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY- JULY 4. 1997 RP police mark drug pushers' homes FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1997 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIE'!-'S-23 B'y JIM GOMEZ pusher," and urged the public '.\lANILA, Philippines (AP) Mayor's order violates rights, says agency to help fight drug pushers. - Hum:rn rights advocates He said the new scheme Thursday opposed an order by messages on the homes of sus "Even if convicted, a crimi were matked were people who docs not violate human rights. Manil:1 tvlayor Alfreuo Lim to pected drug pushers. mostly nal has the right to his honor have been arrested for alleged ·'Let these drug pushers file mark suspected drug dealers· in the city's crowded and reputation," Human drug pushing but never con their complaints in court and homes with painted warnings. shantytowns. hoping it would Rights Commissioner victed. we will answer them. How saying the practice violates deter the spread of drugs. Mercedes Contreras said. "It's She said the practice would about the rights of their vic their rights. "Warning: House of a worse if one is only a sus shame not only a suspected tims whose lives arc destroyed Manila police began pusher. Stay away," the signs pect." drug dealer but also other fam by drugs?"' Lim said Wednes-· Wednesday spray-painting said. Among those whose homes ily members, including chil day. • I dren. Rene Saguisag, a human Contreras said the practice rights lawyer, said the new violates a 1976 U.N. covenant scheme would not guarantee OFFICIAL on civil and political rights, that drug pushers will reform. 1997 Cultural Revival Festival ratified by the Philippines. But he said the painting Raffle Tickets for sale at American Memorial Park Booth #15 which prohibits any "unlaw would be "more palatable" if Cost $5.00 each, ful interference" in the pri Lim included corrupt politi vacy, family or home of any cians among the targets. Grand Prize $10,000 person. Lim 's unconventional and Lim said he wanted people tough methods have been Draw Date: July 5, 1997 at 8:00 p.m. to realize that "it is actually a praised as well as criticized in Need not be present to win public. shame to be a drug the past. The following ticket numbers are missing and the stubs have not been lorwarded to !he Treasurer of the 1997 Cultural Revival Festival. Please check vour tickets. ii you have tickets with the following number or if you have ticket stubs please bring to American Memorial Park Booth #15 during festival hours and before 5:00 p.m. July 5, 1997. Thank you. 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(AP) - Two workers were knocked t i I off the bridge and fol I l 00 feet \ i S1,:cl karns toppled from a i higl11ny bridge under repair to their death. said Jim Perry I'· Wedncsda1. killin~ t\\'o con of the U.S. Coast Guard. · \ strurtion ;\·orkcrs 7md injur Two other workers were in ing 1l1rce. jure·d when they were thrown lr, Cre1\·s \1 ere removing a from the beam 65 feet to the '1 I 00-ton beam \\'ith two cranes bank of the Big Sandy River. I· when :urnthcr beam became They were hos pi tali zed in fair l I 1 l 1' West Virginia State Police and rescue workers look for a trapped bridge worker Wednesday on an l-64 bridge project in Kenova, West Virginia. The two 200-ton steel girders laying on the far bank fe/1150 feet, from two of the concrete tiers on the left, as workers were cutting then away for removal. At least one person is dead and one is missing in the river. AP condition. side of the Interstate 64 bridge while working on another Workers on the bank had on the West Virginia-Ken bridge and a second employee only moments to scatter. tucky border. was killed when he fell 120 "I heard someone scream C.J. Mahan Construction Co. feet at a construction site. ing and that was it, I was on a of Grove City, Ohio, began work Company president Jeff dead run," said Ronnie Oney. on the project in March. Mahan refused lo comment "It cracked and popped. It was In October, a company concerning the company's steel buck! ing." worker fell 80 feet to his death safety record. Kikkaffl;f?Soy auce /\ crane operator escaped ,t~?/ moments before the beams hit Morinaga Infant Milk Powder 400 Grm ...... 3.59/ea. Morinaga Water For Infant Formula 1 _5 LL ...... 3.69/ea. his cab. He suffered minor Group plans to injuries and was treated at a gi~~~ Caramel Corn 98g ...... ·-·-- .. ··-·· 1.69/ea hospital and released. The dead workers were abortion pill to women identified as Kim Perry, 48, NEW YORK (AP) - A small "We have the money and Rescue boats and workers stat1 the search for victims bodies after the and Greg Gentry, 28. collapse of the 1-64 bridge near Kenova, W. Virginia on Wednesday abortion-rights group is plan this will provide coverage The mid-morning accident July 2. The bridge stretches over the Big Sandy river on the W. Va. and ' ning to make the abortion pill for, women in all different i' Kentucky border and was being replaced. AP happened on the eastbound · available for free to 10,000 parts of the country,"Lader U.S. women in research tri told the newspaper. als as a stopgap measure un The drug, known in France I,, TROPICAL COLOR til the drug can be distrib as RU-486, provides an al uted nationally, The New ternative to surgical abor York Times reported tion. The U.S. Food and Drug Beef Shortribs $2 8 9 Wednesday. Administration granted the Family Pack • lb. Lawrence Lader, president group permission to lest the of the New York-based Abor drug, but does noL let groups Stewing Chicken (Whole) tion Rights Mobili-z.ation, will charge women for drugs used (Everyday Low Prices) announce the plan Wednes in such tnals. Pis. Join Now! day, the Times said. The Population Council Get achance to The group already provided holds the U.S. patent rights Ground Beef ...... 1.89/lb the drug, mifepristonc, to to manufacture the drug, but Pork Bellies ...... 2.49/lb win I ,000 women in clinical tri has suffered a series of set als in several U.S. cities. backs in marketing the drug. Pork Tails ...... 1.69/lb Big Prizes With new funding from the In 1994, Roussel-Uclaf, the Smoked Ham Hocks ...... 1.59/lb John Merck Fund, the 11011- French company that devel-. 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Ministry spokesman Hiroshi Pharmaceutical Co., and Campto, ·during the clinical testing of the medi DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND IMMIGRATION The ministty said· fuesday that of Yamamoto said officials plan to re made by Yakul t Honsha Co. cine, said Dr. Masahori Fukushima, . \ refused to disclose details on the cir cumstances until August. 5,430cancer patients treated with the lease details in August and now are Ministly officials and the pharma head of the department of internal I Doctors demanded that the Health drug since April 1994, at least 39, or discussingwaystostopfurtherdeaths. ceutical companies said irinotecan medicine at Aichi Cancer Institute in I and Welfare Ministry release more 0.72 percent, have died from side The drug is sold under two brand can cause a sudden reduction in the central Japan. • · numbcrof white blood cells, damage "It's a shocking figure," I to blood cells and symptoms such as · Fukushima said. severe diarrhea arid pneumonia He said some victims could have I ''The clinical testing proved that our been saved if anti-side effects drugs, products have severe side effects. So such as colony stimulating factor, had I wehavewainedthedoctorstobcaware been approved for use under health I . of the 1isk," said Daiichi Pharmaceuti insurance policies. I cal spokesman Toshia Takahashi. The Health and Welfm'e Minisuy ,_,.'I Tm afraid our product., are often said colony stimulating factor is ap used inappropriately.'' proved in Japan but health insurru1ce The U.S. Food and Drug Admin does not cover its use for certain types istration approved the drug last year of cancer. for colon cancer treatment. In Japan, unlike in the. United Yakult said it, product is exported States, health insurance cannot pay to the United States and Europe as · for particular dmgs unless approved Camptosar under licensing with for that use by the HealtJ1 Ministry. Phrumacia& Upjohn, lnc.andRhone Fukushima said health insurance Poulenc Rorer Inc., but there have does not cover use of CSF for colon been no reports of deaths there result cancer treatment, for which i1inotecm1 ing from side effects. hydrochloride is most effective. :,·~. ·': Us.i;.'D·\···:·;;···&.·J····J::, .. rt Visitors to U.S. Naval Air Facility in Atsugi, Japan crowd around FIA-18 Hornets on the taxiway at the Wings ...... ,•,,:,··:·:·''·'·'-''' '97 air show last week. 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'. i ! possible purchase of Russian Habibie was scheduied to : i By Todd Zaun tify juveniles who are charged publisher Shinchosha Co. But not released the suspect's fighter jets. The discussions hold talks Wednesday with 'I TOKYO (AP)-Justice Min with or convicted of a crime a Focus editor told the Asahi name and have gone to great follow the cancellation of an · Russian Foreign Economic istry officials questioned the and media usually honor po newspaper that the decision to lengths to shield him from Indonesian contract to buy Relations Minister Mikhail editors of a weekly magazine lice requests not to identify publish the picture·fell beyond photographers. U.S. aircraft. Fradkov and Minister of Sci Wednesday after it published juvenile suspects. But the law the law because of the crime's .The magazine published a During a nine-day trip, ence and Technologies a photograph of the junior high protecting juvenile suspects huge impact on Japan. black-and-whit'e photo of the Indonesia's Minister of Re Vladimir Fortqv, the ITAR school boy who confessed to. doesn't provide a penalty for Police arrested the 14-year suspect - an enlargement search and Technology Tass and Interfax news agen I i beheading an I I -year-old. .violation, and it was not im old Saturday after he con from a class picture - along Burhanuddin Habibie plans to cies reported. During his I with a photo of the victim. I The editors were summoned mediately clear what action fessed to killing \ \-year-old meet several top Russian offi trip, Habibie plans to visit the 1. only hours after the magazine the ministry might take. Jun Hase and leaving his sev The article identified the cials and visit a number of Sukhoi and MiG aircraft de 1 "Focus" went on sale - an "The publishing of a picture of ered head at a junior high suspect's school, though his sites where weapons are de sign bureaus and Rubin sub- issue that thousands of news the suspect clearly violates regu school on May 27. He has not name was not mentioned. signed. marine design complex. · stands refused to carry. lations of the law," the ministry's been charged with a crime. Prime Minister Ryutaro The IT AR-Tass news Indonesia's talks with Rus The magazine is known for Civil Liberties bureau said. The crime and arrest of such Hashimoto harshly criticized agency quoted unidentified sia began after Jakarta can its sensational coverage. No one answered the a young suspect have shocked the magazine. officials at the Russian Gen celed a~n agreement last month It is illegal in Japan to iden- phones at the Tokyo office of the country. But police have "What merit could there be eral Staff as saying that Indo to buy nine F-16 fighter jets in this?"Hashimoto said nesia was likely to sign con from the United States. The Wednesday. "They had no tracts for the purchase of the deal broke down after repeated right to decide on their own to Su-30 fighter jets and might criticism of Indonesia's hu break a rule which others have Two Indonesian children are greeted by performers clad in Hercules and Megara costum~ Tuesday ~uring also buy missiles, radars and man rights record in the U.S. honored." Ryutaro Hashimoto "Hercules Show" in Jakarta to promote Walt Disney film "Hercules." which is now being shown m the other weapons and equipment. Congress. Indonesian capital. AP Flooding, . t 'i: landslides injures in ·Hong Kong· HONG KONG (AP) - Heavy rainstorms that dampened Hong Kong's reunion with ~ China triggered flooding and U95-164 1989 OLDS CIERA AAW-960 1S'l5(AS1S) landslides Wednesday, injur ing eight people, one seri 13AND NJ~'IWOltI< ously, the government said. U97-150 1990 CAMRY' .:~ · · AAR-337 6995 A woman also was reported U97-152 1990.. CR-V ACCORD4DR ,., i;,·; Supporters ofpro-democracy leader Megawati Sukarn~putri attending a lawsuit trial Thursday at the Central Jakarta d1sctrtct court, shout demanding the court to be fair in examining their suit against the ... , government-backed leaders of the Indonesian Democratic Party. AP ~-·.: r.1. }1f •I( __ ,;:~;·7f·--- -:i ·r·.--. :c·I·I 36-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY-JULY 4. 1997 - ---~------FRIDAY, JULY 4. 1997 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-37 New HK leader meets media At naval base near Phnom Penh By EDITH M. LEDERER Appeming 1c:hxed anJ affable. he feel obliged to "humoror accommo HONG KO\'G (AP)_ Tung Chee tossed off occ:L,ional one-liners - date·· China. hwa. in his first news confrn~nce w; ·'I11at's getting tote a bmrngc," he 'There will be conflicts, and obvi Hong Kong· s li:aJer.11:p:.:ateJ plcJges quipped after one lengthy question. ously they will need to be talked Riv troops face off to holJ dcnions by miJ-1998. took a Just ,L, smoothly, he sidestepped a through in order to make swe tliat our few sensitive questions, such as· interests me looked after,., he said. calm, ic\\' of .uni-China pmtcsts ,mu By ROBIN McDOWELL Phnom Penh between R,mmiduh's gaining chip in talks with tl1e govern over Pol Pot. Khmel'l{ouge in 1979. ga,·c fn:sh ,t,sur.mccs about Hong whetlier legal action would be taken "But the important tl1ing is tliat our PEAM SATHA, Cambodia (AP) bodygurn·ds mid Hun Sen 's uoops ment. Pol Pot led the Kinner Rouge re Through the 1980s, against democratic lawmakers who long-term interests me very similar." Kong"s freedoms. Fighting with rnonm-:; :md rocket left two of the prince's guards dead. Hun Sen and Rm1ariddhrnesh,uply gimethattnmsfrnrnedCambodiainto Ranariddh ·s royalist forces were defied the government and made The new govemmcnt's tolerance ll1e tenitory. which c,mie unuer launchers trnptcd ne:u· the capital 'llieclash is t11e latest violent m,mi divided over peace proposals for the a vast agrmian labor c,m1p after tak sworn enemies to Hun Sen 's then the (hinese flag Tuesday. "will have hm1dover-nigh t protestspeec hes fmm of dissent was tested Tuesday when Wednesday between forces loyal to festation of long-stm1ding enmities rebels, pa11iculai·ly over whether ing power in 1975,causingt11edcaths Vietnamese-backed communist the balcony of the legislative build 3,000 pro-democracy protesters a high Jegr1;e of autonomy for a long, rival Cambodimi political factions. between R,maiiddh ,md Hun Sen, amnesty should be gnmted to high of up to 2 million people. Neighbor troops. Vietnam is Cambodia's ing. marched on a main thoroughfare. long. long time:· Tung said. Under llie extent of tlie fighting :md tl1e wo1,ened inrecent weeks by disputes level leade1, in exchm1ge for tuming ing Vietnam invaded :md toppled the historic enemy. Hong Kong's elected legislature Police did not interfete; in fact they tc1111s of the h,mJo,er, the fomier cause of the cla\h were not elem·, but over peace talks with the l,L,l rem British colony is to maintain iL, capi was replaced by a body set up by cmefully cleared traffic so the march : I 'j the battle pined troops supporting the muil, of the Khmer Rouge. China. Tung again promise-0 elec could proceed .. talist system anJ way of life for 50 rival co-premiers, Prince Norodom Wednesday's clash appeared tions by June 30, but declined· to ''Wouldidoitthisway?Obviously years. R:mrniddh:md Hun Scn.againsteach linked to recent accusations by Hun specify tl1e month. not, ''Tung said. "I would have thought Tung. a 60-year-olJ shipping ty other. Sen 's p:uty that a general loyal to Asked how Hong Kong's 6.3 mil of a better way of conununicating." coon with distinctive brnsh-cut hair. C:L,ualty 'tigu1es from tl1e fighting Ranariddh was massing former fao:J 400 foreign mid Hong Kong lion people and mainland China's 1.2 But he added: "Demonstrations, so were not immediately available. Khmer Rouge guenillas at a bw;e he journal isl,. fielding question; for billion can trust each other, Tung said long as they me lawful ... can go right a;; 1l1c sound of mort.ll' .uiJ rocket controls to attack Hun Sen 's faction. Hong Kong n1ust "get to know our ahead." hour in English, Cantonese and Man fire could be he,u·d coming from a A sc,u-ch of the base last week tu med J:uin. own country better'' but shouldn't Wednesday, the last day of a five- naval base about 30 kilometers ( 18 up nothing. miles) no1thwcst of Phnom Penh. 13 uta senior mi Ii t,uy ofli ceral igncd Wiu1csses 1cprntcd seeing a gun with Hun Sen 's fom1erlycommunist lxi:1t heading up the Tonic Sap River Cambodi,u1 People's Prnty claimed toward a naval base controlled by Tuesday tl1at !lie frnrner gue1Till,ts R:mm"it.Jdh. "Ilic b:L,c was su1munded were hiding in two temples out~idc by Hun Sen 's u·oops. tlic capital. "Now we ha,'.cencircb.J them mid "ll1e 1epo1tcd stJike force or ex ,u·c urging them to give up their:urns gue1Ti!l:Ls is not connected to about or they will be ,mcstcd." said Sao I ,(XX) rebels holed up in f:u· nonhern Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa of the Hong Kong Special Administra Sokha. deputy milit:uy police chief Cm1bodia. Officials now ,uc Uying tive Region is all smiles during a news conference in Hong Kong, China, for Hun Sen "s :urned forces. to pei,uade that group to defect. Wednesday. AP Repo11e1-:; were stopped at a check 'llie northern rebels a,e tlie l,L,t c:mceled due to tl1e sto1ms, which day handover holiday, was supposed point just outside the b:L,c. remn:mts of the Khmer Rouge fol caused floods ,md l:mdslides and left tohav~featu1eda final burst of open Troops equipped with rocket lowing the defection of about I O,CXXl air festivities. But it rained - hard -on at least eight people injured. TI1is is launchers were seen nu,;sing ne:u·the u·oops last yew·. Hong Kong's parade. the summer monsoon season mid ,u-ca. It w,Ls not clc:u· whose troops ll1ey have rc:portedly taken tlieir Aplannedprocessionoftloatsw;L~ heavy rninfall is frequent. they were. llic fighting came just own leader, the notorious Pol Pot, Cambodian government soldiers loyal to Second Prime Minister Hun Sen reinforce a siege of a base manned by troops loyal to First Prime Minister Norodom Ranariddh, north of Phnom Penh Thursday. Although the two two weeks afte~·agunbattlc in cenu·a! hostage m1 ,'• FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1997 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND viEWS-39 38-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY- JULY 4, 1997 ------~------Even if loses elections: According to US Congress report: L it US interests in Haiti at risk Mexico ruling party By MJt;rlAEL NORTON reform the coumry's economy. for foreign aid. the report says. ciatcd Press. But international aid comes with PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Aristide continues to inlluencc "We are forced to assume that "The hour is late. If this crisis strings attached. assures peace, calm .(AP) - A U.S. rnngressional re his hand-picked succes"1r. l'resi Preval - with no deep political is not ameliorated. it poses a real Aristide had tacitly consented port accuses fonner PrcsiJcnt dcnl Rene Pn:val. and is under base of his own - wi II not chal threat to U.S. policy and interests to the austerity plan in 1995 in By JOHN RICE moderate.tone echoed that.of gov He also took issue with the kan-lkrtrand AristiJe of threat mining U.S. efforts to persuade lenge Aristide," says the biparti and to the U.S. investment in return for international aid. but MEXICO CITY ( AP) - Mexico's ernment officials in recent days, claim by some observers that a ening U.S. interests in Haiti by the Haitian government to accept san report. dated June 26 and ob Haiti," says the report prepared now opposes it. said Robett White, ruling party assured the country who apparently are worried that victory for the PRI would imply thwarting U.S.-backed plans to austerity measures in exchange tained Wednesday by The Asso- for the chairman and ranking a former U.S. ambassador to El Wednestlay that it will not create warnings of instability could the vote was tairtted, noting that D~mocrat on the House Interna Salvador who joined the congres .-1 instability if, as some polls have frighten foreign investors. the 1994 presidential election - tional Relations Committee. sional delegation. predicted, it loses its majority in Millan insisted, "We expect won by the PRI's Ernesto Zedillo The United States staked its "(Former) President Aristide Congress for the first time in its good electoral results, we expect - was widely considered clean. Carr.ier Air Conditioning prestige on improving the situa has decided not to do what he 68-year history on Sunday. victories" and a continuing ma Millan also·pointed out that crit . i tion in Haiti when it sent 20.000 promised to do," said White, who ''.It has not been a line of con- jority in Congress. · But if the ics in several previous votes "have troops there in 1994 to oust the i~ currently director of the private , i I . duct (of the party) to provoke opposition wins, "we have the predicted that this election now is military leaders who had over Center for International Policy in post-electoral conflicts," Juan S. best will to seek agreement with the end, is the death of the PRI, is thrown Aristide. The United Washington. Millan, secretary-general of the other parliamentary factions" to the end of the Mexican political States then reluctantly restored The unimplemented program, Institutional Revolutionary Party, pass legislation, he said. · system. Aristide to power, despite con which has placed on hold hun said. He noted that the party has "As recently as the last elec cern about his populist bent. dreds of millions dollars of aid ·:There should be no alteration worked with opposition gover tions, they have erred com Since then, Washington has from the United States and other in national life with the election nors and opposition legislatures pletely," he said. "We expect that On Your tried to keep Haiti's fragile Je sources, would lay off thousands results," Millan said at a news in a few Mexican states for the once again they will tum out to be mocracy on course and persuade of Haitian government workers conference for foreign reporters. past eight years. wrong." its government to adopt the and put nine inefficient state com The comments by the party's "We expect that in these elec Wednesday was the final day privatization plans and govern panies in private hands. No. 2 official contrasted sharply tions, there is enough maturity on for campaigning under Mexican ment cuts. The visiting legislators said they with recent remarks by party Presi the part of all political parties to law, but all eight parties staged The report was made available would report to U.S. President accept the verdict of the citizens," their grand campaign closing ral A myriad of political campaign posters hang over a street in Mexico dent Humberto Roque Villanueva, City, Wednesday. Mexicans go to the polls Sunday July 6th in municipal Ju ring a visit here by five Demo Bill Clinton, who. along with who has used terms such as "fas he said. lies over the weekend. and state elections. AP cratic congressmen who met with Congress, must determine in the cist" and "traitors" to describe Aristide, Preval and several other fall how much aid Haiti will re opposition parties and warned that Haitian politicians during three ceive in fiscal 1998. In 1995, the their victory might even lead to ~ days of talks that ended Wednes United States gave about dlrs 240 "chaos" in extreme cases. r1:n1 day. million and in 1997 about dlrs Recent opinion polls have Their visit was prompted by I 00 million. · shown that opposition parties Year Anniversary Celebration ,~~' .. , the report and by the June 9 resig Smarth resigned June 9 after stand a good chance of keeping nation of Premier Rosny Smarth, Haitian legislators split over his the ruling party, known as the who had been the main chamRion economic program, a rift that PRI, from retaining a majority in of the internationally backed aus deepened when Aristide formed a Congress. Cong ~a+ulations terity plan. new party. Most polls also have shown the F~ Ul- ~'I-~{ 4 After returning to Washington, Preval, who replaced Aristide PR! trailing in the race for Mexico the delegation spoke Wednesday in February 1996 after being nomi City mayor and some indicate it of the delicate state of the Carib nated by the coalition that previ could lose th.e governorships of The Carrier Man Can bean nation's young democracy ously had supported Aristide, has Nuevo Leon and Queretaro states. and urged an increase in aid. been unable to win a consensus in It has lost only four state gover MIDDLE ROAD · "We 're building a government Parliament to replace Smarth. norships in its history. Millan 's from ground zero," said Rep. John Runoff elections that would Conyers of Michigan, ranking decide who controls the Senate Democrat on the House Judiciary were indefinitely postponed last Committee. "We feel that it's ur month after all parties except gent we move in with every re Aristide's announced a boycott, source we are able to spare and charging they were fixed to favor AQUA RESORT CLUB provide.'' Aristide candidates. on your CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - A reporter whose expose of conupt judges landed him in jail on defama tion charges was rele,L<;ed Wednes 8th Year day aftcrreceivinga ptesidential par * don. "It's a triumph for Venezuelan society," William Ojeda, 26, said af Anniversary terkneelingandembrncinghismother outside El Junquito minimum secu rity jail in western Caracas. He had about seven months re Celebration maining on his year-long prison sen AQUA RESORT CLUB tence. President Rafael Caldera par doned Ojeda Friday on National Re ·if. porters Day. on your Ojeda' s 1995 book, "now Much is a Judge Worth?," made him a cause celebre for denouncing judges who 8th Year allegedly took bribes. However, two of the judges cited in From the Management & Staff of the book sued, claiming they were Anniversary Celebration! maligned. Judge father Franco La RivaagrccdlastAub'USt,rulingOjeda Kwek's Enterprise~ Saipan intentionally published "lies." From the Management & Staff of Riva rejected m, appeal last No For All Your Food Wholesale Needs: vember. Produce, ·Frozen Foods and Grocery Products Ojeda had accepted the jail sen tence rather than publish, at his ex Located on Middle Road, Gualo Rai pense, the 20-page court ruling in Tel: 234-7243, Fax: 234-3304 Caracao, newspapers, as the judge Tel.: 235-4772 S~yatoslav Fyodorov, Russia's best-known eye surgeon peers in the offered. microscope as he performs surgery to give eyesight to a young female elephant from a Moscow circus, Tuesday AP FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1997 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VJEWS-41 40-MARIANAS Y1\RIE"fY _N!::~S A~I) VIEWS-FRIDAY- JULY 4, 1997 Clashes in Dominican Rep. For current and former officers in San Francisco de Macrnis, a re Wednesday for the snike, which be but failed to reach an agreement. construction of a regional airpo1t. By lban Campo All were promises President Leonel SA.1'\1TO DOMINGO, Dominican po11er for Listin Diruio newspaper. gan Tuesday. Demonsn-atorsblocked The police officer in charge of the Dems to pay legal bills Fernru1dez made during his election Republic (AP) - A geneml saike said in a telephone call. roads with piles of trash and burning northeast district, B1ig. Gen. Cru-Ios Antonio Reyes Mora, showed jour campaign last yeru-. p,u·alyzed lhe northeast for a second Strikers protesting halted infra tires, businesses remained closed and By JAMES ROWLEY nalists spent shells from bullet.~ he Fernandez, who took office in tors may be brought before TV day Wednesday and led to chL,hes strncture projects clashed with police publictrnnsportationremainedhalted WASHINGTON (AP) -Despite claimed were fired at authorities Tues August, hl!S asked for mo1e time to cameras and asked to fom1ally take betweenpmtestersm1dsecu1ityforces. and hundreds of soldiers stationed Wednesday throughout the region. mounting financial problems, the the Fifth as protection against self day. improvetheeconornyandlivingstan At Je,L,t two people were repo11ed throughout the region.hurling rocks The strike involved the northeast Democratic Pai1y said it is paying The protesters threatened to dards, saying his predecessor left him incrimination, the source said, wounded. · and setting off homemade bombs. ern provinces of La· Duarte, Maiia legal bills for cmTent and former continue the work stoppage in a $4 billion debt. speaking on condition of anonym Trinidad Sanchez, Samana, Sanchez ) Arepo11erwasshotinthehandand Police fought back with tear gas. .... officers caught up in the investiga ity. The U.S. Senate's-chief RamirezandSalcedo.Strikeorganiz definitely unless the government Last month, he used troops to put . j a young protester took a bullet in the More than 400 civic and labor 1 tion of campaign fund-raising agrees to their demands, ranging down street protests in the capital, in investigator. Sen. Fred Thompson, foot du1ing moming confrontations organizations vowed support ers and officials met Tuesday night abuses. _told a rep011er the hearings will from improved water and elec which at least IO civilians were in At the U.S. Senate, where hear focus on "serious allegations con tricity service in rural areas to the jured. ings on the subject beginning next cerning the integrity of our gov ~-.-~ week, a source said Wednesday ernment, the abuse of power, the i that numerous witnesses, such as use of money in retaining that Panama Canal workers frnmer Democratic fund raiser Jolm power. · Hu\)ng, might refuse to testify by "The curtain will be pulled back 1 want strike ban lifted invoking the Fifth Amendment. on the operation of the people's A list of 30 witnesses subpoe government: What went on in the By ERIC NUNEZ committee that drew up the new naed to testify the first two weeks last campaign," Thompson said. PANAMACITY,Panama(AP) management code. of hearings includes Huang's The hearings are expected to But the Masters, Mates and Pi A union of Panama Canal worke1s former colleagues at the Lippo include testimony by fo1merChair lots Union, which claims a mem announced Wednesday it will ask Group, an Indonesian conglomer man Donald L. Fowler and other the country's Supreme Court toover bership of 7,000 workers, says it ate with close ties to President top officials of the .Democratic tum alaw passed inJune that prohib will try to have the measure rolled I its strikes among employees of the back. .J Clinton: Others on the list included National Committee, which re 1 Mrs. Price Cheaney Jr. col!ects her pain_t brushes after putting the final touches on her next door neighbor's waterway. 'The law blatantly violates tlre top White House staffers and Com turned almost dlrs 3 million in ille merce Depru1ment officials who gal fo1eign conn·ibutions. More than 3,000 pound concrete gonlla Tuesday m Waco, Texas. The gorilla painted to look like Uncle Sam was a The law lays out the framework consti1ution. It is unjust to force birthday gift last year to Marcie Lipsitz. AP ' ' for Panama's management of the workers to forgo theirrighttostrike," worked with Huang during his stint half were raised by Huang. canal afteritisreturned by the United said spokeswoman .Lina Boza at that agency. Others States in 1999. Supporters of the ban Two other labor groups repre subpoenaed were Democratic Na on strikesorotherslowdowns by the senting canal workers, about 90 tional Committee officials; associ 10,CXX) canal employees say it is percent of whom are Panamanian, ates of Democratic fund-raiser and aimed at reassuring international have also voiced objections to the Clinton friend Charles Yah Lin shippers thattraffic on the waterway law. Trie; and participants in a Demo will not be inte111.1pted. Under the 1977 Carter-Tonijos . cratic fund-raiser at a Buddhist ''In the end, wean~justkeepingin treaty, the United States- which has 1· temple, attended by Vice President operated the canal since 1914- will Al Gore. Congratulations! forceU.S. a. rul.e administration" that. w. as appli·ed· of.... the under. ca- tum over the wateiway and all re- Argentine anthropologist Carlos Somigliana, right, digs with an axe in an area where researchers have been Clinton's closest White House escavating in an effort to find the remains of legendary guerrilla leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Wednesday said Jorge Ritter, afonner for aide, Bmce Lindsey, is on the list, minister and member of.the bymaining. the end ·nu.. ·.·l.itary·····ofl 999. .bases.··· ... ·.·.····. .··to.·.· .•.... ·.·.P ·.···.... ru·····.llll11.·.··.·.··.•. ... ··. . a.I. in Vallegrande, southern Bolivia. AP as is former White House staffer Harold Ickes and Hillary Rodham Clinton's longtime chief of staff, Margaret Williams. Huang and others who have de clined to cooperate with investiga- Deportation is · sought for rn.an · who helped Nazis ·. PHILADELPHIA (AP)_ The Jus tice Dcp:utment Ju~ beh'lln dcpo11a AQUA RESORT CLUB tion proceedings against ,m 80-ye,u· old man who sc1ved in a Lithu,mian police unit that helped Gcm1:ms mur der Jews du1ing World War II. TI1c U.S. Supreme Cou11 in May tumed away JomLs Stelmokas' ap peal of a judge's decision lo revoke his U.S. citizenship. On Your On Tuesday, the Justice l)eprut ment filed depo1tation papers against AQUA RESORT.CLUB· the retired architect in immigration cou1t in Philadelphia. ~ Stelmokas' legal battle may not be over, though. Federal officials have said Stelmok.Ls could challenge his depo11ation before ,u, inunig7·ation judge and, failing that, could appeal to the Supreme Cou1t. Stelmokw;' attorney, John Rogers Cmrnll, did not immediately return a ~11··.·:.·, call seeking comment. From the management & staff of: Stclmokas lost his citizenship in .. ..;., # i;.! a· Y\ !J·''. 1995 when a federal judge 111Jed tlmt he had lied about his wm1ime activi ties to gain cnlly into tl1e United States. From the management & staff of: When Stclmokas applied for im migration in 1949, he said he was discharged from the Lithuanian Army in 1940 and then worked as a teacher. He repe,itcd those claims ~t)larianas '%tie~ when he became a naturnlized citi zen in 1955. .. ,. .. ,• . ' ...... ~. . ~ ....., ...... -' FRIDAY;' JULY 4, 1997 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS..cJ • SALE PRICES EFFECTIVE: JULY 11 - 10 99Case Limit: 4 Full case _BUDWEIS_ER RcgJLitcllcc \I PAPER & CLEANING SUPPLIES! Wisk LAUNDRY DETERGENT 67 Loads ...... 11.99 Soft N' GHtle BATHROOM TISSUE 4 Roll ...... 1.49 Kao Wonderful LAUNDRY DETERGENT 500 gm ...... 4for$5 Springfield BLEACH Gal ...... 1.79 1'Kingsford Match Llgh CHARCOA BRIQUET FARM FRESH PRODUCE! 15 L • Jumbo 541( CARROTS 4,Lb. 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(AP)-1l1e NATO-led peace force 1l1e power struggle between rived in the Bar1ja Luka region late failed to abide by the peace agree Plavsic has U.S. support and can tightened secu1ity around the Bosnian Ka1:1dzic ar1d Biljar1a Plavsic, who Tuesday, threatening to attack ment. count on the backing of the Serb Serb pre,;ident Wednesday follow now heads tl1e Serb-controlled half of Plavsic 's headquarters there. The dispute broke into the open army. Karadzic and his associates ing thn:aL, by suppo11crs of her 1ival. Bosnia. has intensified in recent days. · In response, British soldiers when Plavsic nied to fire Interior command a police force that is better wartime leader Radovan K,u-adzic. NATO spokesman. Maj. Chris blocked the center of Bar1ja Luka . Minister Dragan Kijacovertheweek paid ar1d more motivated than the Karadzic, who has been indicted Riley said the peacekeeping force around midnight. end,accusinghimof smuggling items rumy ar1d would likely be backed, at for war c1imes, was forced to step boosted secmi ty around Pl av sic at The power struggle between at the behest of Karndzic. leastcovertly,byneighboringSerbia. down last year under theU.S. her base in n01them Banja Luka after Plavsic and Karadzic is badly divid Plavsic was then briefly detained "When· I was elected, many brokcred peace agreement that ended it "received indicators ovemight of a ing the 49 percent of Bosnia under by S~rbian police in Belgrade - thought I would be simply a puppet in Bosnia ·s 3 1/2-ycar war·. But he still possible threat." Serb control. 1l1e tenitory already is signsofthepowerKaradzicstillwields the har1ds of the former president commar1ds wide suppo1t in Bosni,m He refused to elaborate. But beset by se1ious troubles. Most people and his close ties to the regime of Banja Luka on Wednesday. The Committee to Re-Elect DAVID MUNDO APATANG for An Independence Day and Liberation Day CONGRESS '97 Precinct No. 1 Republican Party is sponsoring an evening of Message from Governor Froilan C. Tenorio Dinner Dancing and Door Prizes on Friday, July 18, 1997 'HafaAdai, 6:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. at the Ralina's Kitchen in Afetnas $20.00 Donation Let it not ever be misunderstood that we are proud Americans in the Northern Marianas. I am American, TICKETS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR a proud and patriotic citizen of the United States. By virtue of our own choosing, we became citizens of PLEASE COME AND JOIN US this country, the greatest nation on earth. For more information, please contact the Committee to Re-Elect To truly join the ranks of our fellow citizens "from sea to shining sea," it is only natural that we find David Mundo Apatang at 235-1948 ourselves in the spotlight of our supporters or the crosshairs of our critics-- this is, as we are learning, the U.S. soldiers, members of the NA TO-led peace force in Bosnia, American way. We fight for what we believe in, we compromise when it is prudent, and we always keep Si Yu'us Ma'ase, Ghilisou and Thank You rehearse protocol procedures with flags at the U.S. Army base, Eagle, our eyes set on a horizon where when the dust settles, we know there is a brighter day and a better future. Dorothy L. Sablan, Treasurer near Tuzla. NATO is said to be planning more patrols in light of a power struggle among two Bosnian leaders. AP . . 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SHOWN WITH OPTIONAL EQUIPMENT near the coast of the Moray Firth, An incmlihly 1uugh fishing l"al; tested for half a '' ' ',.' l -r, 46-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY- JULY 4, 1997 ' ---~------~~_J_[)~Y,JULY 4, 1997-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-47 Jospin pressed on economy Yeltsin fires justice minister By DEBORAH SEWARD By Mitchell Landsberg on national television - that Federal Security Service. the spicuously ah.sent in many of PARIS (AP) - With jobless MOSCOW (AP) - Presi(knt appears lo show him cavorting main successor agency to the Russia's top officials in recent ness rising sharply, newly Boris Yeltsin fired his _justice with naked women in a bathtub. KC,13. Stepashin promiscd vcars.But while corruption scan elected Prime Minister Lionel minister Wednesday in modern Not just ,111y bathtub. how sweeping rerorm or the JL\stice dals have been comrnonplacc in Jospin came under renewed Russia ·s first high-level sex ever. This one was reportedly in Ministry. post-So\'ict Russia. sex rarcl:, pressure Wednesday to act on scandal - although sex was a sauna frequented by one or Prime Minister Viktor had a role in them until the: his promises to improve the only one ingredient in the lurid Russia's most notorious mafia Chernomyrdin praised K·ovalyov case .broke. French economy. videotape that brought Valentin gangs - implying the Justice Stepashin 's appointment, say On June 21. a Moscow tab A month after taking office Kovalyov down. minister was bathing with the ing he has .. proved by his work loid published photos from the: following a leftist victory in Kovalyov, a 53-ycar-old mob. that he is an honest. competent. seen: ti y recorded v ideota pc. parliamentary elections, former communist, has been al To succeed Kovalyov. responsible and - the main most or which showed a man Jospin is under fire from the the center or a fororovera grainy Yeltsin named Lt. Gen. Sergei thing - brave person.'· who appeared to be Kovalyov right for acting too slowly and videotape - shown repeatedly Stepashin, forrner chief of the Those virtues have been con- sining in a sauna with :--c\·eral from the left for failing to keep people draped in towels. campaign promises. The newspaper. Top Secret. Fn,ncois Hollande, the head also suggested Kovalyov had of Jospin 's Socialist Party, ties to a b:1nker jailed for al lcg Boris Yeltsin Lionel Jospin said Wednesday he expected cdly embezzling millions of \\'ho h:1d Ileen _justice minister Jospin "to set his course" soon cent increase in the minimum dollars. Chernomyrdin recalled ,ince l 9lJ5. and sc1·cral pulili on economic reform. wage, cutting the work week Kovalyov from a foreign trip cians h;1vc spuken in hi, de- "We are not going to do from 39 to 35 hours without a and announccd he was suspend things in 40 days. We are not drop in pay, and the creation ing him. Pros,:cutor Cicncr:il Yuri going to do them in six months. of 700,000 jobs for young Since then. scarcely a day h:1s Skurato1 ,aid the puhlicatil'n of We are elected for a legisla people. passed that the tape hasn't been the I iuco ;111d photos I i,ilatecl tive term and so he has to say But he has yet to say how he replayed on television. Ko1 alyov 's cons ti 1u1ional right.s. what he is doing," 1-Iollande will achieve these goals. Kovalyov denies the tape is "The ~ln·ernment dDes tHll told radio Europe 1. France has been struck by a authentic and says it was re climb int~ bed with people." French farmers burn peaches and melons, protesting a drop in fruit and vegetable prices blamed on an influx In a major speech June 19, wave of bad economic news leased to tarnish his image as First Deputy Prime '.\linistcr of produce from other European countries, especially Spain. AP Jospin had promised a 4 per- this week, with the announced part of a ·political pown Boris Nemtsov s,1id. urging the closing of a Renault auto plant struggle. media to respect Ko1·,.ly()\ ·, in Belgium and reports of a Y~ltsin has ordered a probe privacy. sharp increase in jobless. into the tape's authenticity, but Stcpashin. thcne11 justice min Renault, partly owned by the no results have been announced. ister. 11·;1s fired as Federal Secu French state, definitively an Interior Minister Anatoly rity Service chief two years ago nounced the closure of the Kulikov says he believes the al'ter a botched attempt lo free appy Vilvoorde factory on Satur tape is authentic, and has de hostages seized by Chechen guer day. nied allegations it was leaked rillas in southern Russia. Since Jospin, who denounced the by his staff. then, he has served as ht!ad or the planned closure during the President Boris Yeltsin, right, smiles as he talks to Prime Minister ViktorChernomyrdin during their meeting However, no charges have administrative dc:partment for campaign, has been criticized in the Kremlin, Wednesday. Yeltsin gave his prime minister three months to solve the chronic problem of been filed against Kovalyov, Russia's government. by Communist members of his unpaid wages that are owed to millions of Russian workers nationwide. AP Libera/~ .. .. governing coalition for say ;t~~r// t-~'>t ing he can do nothing about it. Roger Mei, a Communist lawmaker, told tabloid daily Le Parisien that the closing of '. 1 !11' n\t .. •"'{_ Yi1voorde, which will entail // '\ I '.• \, the loss of several thousand jobs, was "unacceptable." iiilaft.J Jospin has appealed to his To the People of the ';'"j1i \\~\ fellow Socialists to direct their '. i criticism toward the right and Commonwealth of I refrain from "misplaced" stands thl~tf \ on various issues that would in terfere with his leadership. Northern Mariana Islands The right continued its re lentless criticism of Jospin, with conservative daily Le Figaro on Wednesday accusing him of act ing too slowly in tackling to the People of the Commonwealth of the France's economic problems. "The prime minister intends to Northern Mariana Islands hurry slowly," Le Figaro said. "He is taking his time. To win, but at the risk of losing." Unemployment, at 12.5 per Happy Liberation Day! cent, is France's most stubborn economic problem, and the la From the Staff & Management of .. bor minister Monday announced SIGI-TUDELA q~fu,m that the number of jobless had risen to 3, I 13,000 in May, up 32,000 from April. Jospin is likely to come un J ANBORJA der increased pressure from French voters as well to deliver on his promises. A poll released Wednesday by the BYA institute indicated PATlll'INIJER SI' that nearly three-quarters, or 73 MAXIMA TUDELA percent, of French people think Jospin will enact the 35-hour work week. JOETEN MOTOR COMPANY INC. _For Mayor •9_7 I3VA interviewed 944 AUTO SALES, PARTS & SERVICE people by phone June 27-28 for 234-5562 to 5568 or 235-5557 or 235-5559 INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE the poll. No margin of error was First on Saipan! given, but French polls of this size usually carry a margin .of plus or minus 2-3 percent. FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1997 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-49 ---~ ' ------····------. . 48-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND_ VIEWS-FRIDAY- JULY 4, 1997 Berisha vows to ·resi 1--- ··--. -·-··---···------··· By JUDITH INGRAM out of the count!)' after incomplete TIRANA, Albania (AP) - With election results suggested an upset the country anxiously awaiting fi for Berisha's party. nal results from weekend elections, Berisha also said he had received I President Sali Berisha vowed to reports that ··criminal gangs were resign and the Socialist Patty cel coming to feast in Tira~a.'-;- ebrated its apparent landslide vic "They were coming from dis tory in Tirana's main square. tricts where there was no free vote" "We have decided to accept the in Sunday's election, Berisha. said, verdict of the nation. We lost the refe1Ting to pmts of the south con I GNE:R battle for a great future," Berisha · trolled by rebels. to the People of the Commonwealth of the said Wednesday. He said his party A westem diplomatic source, I would play the role of a loyal oppo speaking on condition of anonym Northern Mariana Islands sition in the new pru·liament. ity, said there was a "lot of tension Sunday's parliamentru)' elec between various forces in the city" t! tions were intended to stem the in the nm-up to Sunday's second violence that has gripped Albania round of voting, which could de Happy Liberation Day! for months since protests over failed termine how big the Socialist ma high-risk investment schemes burst jority will be. I From the Staff & ·Management of .. into armed rebellion. More than Observers have said the vote I 1,500 people have been killed in was relatively fair. But Democratic the unrest this year. Party leaderT1itan Shehu has threat Wid1 votes in more d1,111 two ened to challenge election results, thirds of Albania's voting district~ claiming violence and manipula tion in mme than 30electoral zones counted· by Wednesday evening, Albanian Presid(!nt Sali Berisha tries to make a point as reporters press him to announce th~ date ofh;; Socialistshad52percenttotheDemo conu·olled by rebel committees pre resrgnatron. Berisha told a news conference on Wednesday that he would resign following the Socialist I crntic Pmty 's 27 percent, according vented a fair election. victory in last Sunday's elections. AP to the central electoral commission. 1 \ Twenty-one races will go into mnoffs next Sunday, and five zones where the voting never sta11ed or was invalidated will have their first TAlJRllS F-150 round on,_Sunday. "We '11 fulfill ourpromises," So JOETEN MOTOR COMPANY INC. cialist leader Fatos Nano told some AUTO SALES, PARTS & SERVICE I 0,000 jubilant suppo11ers gath 234-5562 to 5568 or 235-5557 or 235-5559 ered in the capital city's central Skanderbeg Square ·on Wednes First on Saipan! day evening. "We know we have a long way to go, but with a large alliance of our political partners we 'II create not a primitive capital ism like Berisha did, but private bai1ks, strong police, a strong army, strong culture and economy." The central electoral commis HAPPY sion said Wednesday that it still had not received all the election results from local committees. It said that electoral commissions in the rebel-controlled south - where the Socialists :u-e generally favored - feared the results would be seized on their way to Tirana by support ers of Berisha's Democrats. \ \ \\ ,"[ will resign. I know you want ' \ a date, but it's very difficult be cause there's a process involved," Berisha said at a news conference. HAPPY\ He had pledged earlier' this year that he would step down if the rival Socialists won the parliamentary vote. He has displayed conflicting re LIBERATION DAY actions to news of his Democratic Party's defeat. While he was ini tially conciliatory, he ordered the National Guard and special police TO ALL THE forces Tuesday night to block en trances to Tirana and use tanks to guard the national bank. He also asked Premier Bashkim Fino early PEOPLE OF CNMI! Wednesday to appoint a Demo cratic Party loyalist interior minis From the management & staff of: ter, the Socialist Pa1ty said. Fino refused on both counts, is suing his own order that troops should ignore the president's com mand. Berisha said his deployment or der was in reaction to the unan fflEITETIU fflART nounced departure on Tuesday of Interior Minister Belul Celo. 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Ittook into while the second-election tumout most chaotic counuies. such ,Ls Alba But it does challenge some clm "People may be illiterate, but re account only elections in which there By Maureen Johnson medical insurance. out-of-work older people. ventional wisdom about voting pat main politically literate and possess a was deemed to be some degree of edged slight! y higher, to 62 percent nia ,md Angola. have voter turnout LONDON (AP)-Springingasur Brown also raised taxes on home 'The welfrue state today denies tems, such as the belief that high high level of understanding of politi competitiveness. Speaking at a news conference, rates that fru-exceed m,my developed ptise in it~ first budget, Britain's new sales, pmticularly for expensive rather than provides opportunity," literacy equates with high election cal strategy," survey coordinator It shows Malta, the Seychelles, Reynolds said low turnouts in the democracies like the United States. a Labor government Wednesday cut homes, and teduced tax. breaks on said Brown, underlining pledges by_ p,uticipation. Albert Reynolds said. Albania and Umguay with turnouts United. States reflected complicated n:poit said \Yednesday. business taxes and announced a five home rn01tgages. tl1e party tl1at founded the welfare \\'Orldwide su1vey by the TI1eSeychelles,second-higheston The United States ranked 139th in of more than 90 percent of the voting registration laws that have discour 1111: year program to sbruply 1-educe state Sticking to a pledge in the plat state will now discourage living off the tumour list with 96percent, has an voter tumout, at 44 percent. :1ge population in the 1990s. Angola aged many potential voters and tended Stockholm-b,L-;ed Institute for De frnm on which Labor won a landslide tl1e dole. "It is time for the welfate The survey compiled tumout fig- was fifth-highest with 88 percent At to disenfranchise mino1ities. bonuwing. mocracy ,u1d Electoral Assistance adult literacy rate of about 6()percent state to put oppo111mity back into the bottom of the list were Guate "Ame1ica has all the things tliat The Tteasury chief, Chancellor of election vict01y May 1, Brown made people's hands." mala, Egypt, Senegal, Burkina Faso, you could say m-c unf1iendly to vot the fachequer Gordon Brown, also no increases in personal income taxes. Brown said also announced a $2 Djibouti and Mali-all with turnouts ers," Reynolds said. slapped a $8.6 billion windfall tax on The windfall tax. is the only tax increase that was in Labor's election billion increase for the free National of less thru1 30 percent. Although the study found no cor companies ptivatized by theprev ious Health Setvice, and a $3.8 billion The su1vey also challenges the be- relation between a country's wealth Conse1vative government. platform. Amid howls of de1ision from op increase in education spending. 1ief that voters in countries with long and its voter turnout, it did find that The 2-point cut, to 31 percent, position Conservative Patty legisla Under the pro1:,•nm1 to cut the defi democratic traditions inevitably be~ tumour tends to be bigger in coun makes B1itain 's Lax onc01porate prof tot-s, Brown declmed, ''It is my judg cit, Brown said that in the 1997-98 come more blase thm1 those in coun tries that place higher on the Hu iL~ among the lowest in Europe. ment the tax can be paid without ,my fiscal year, it will be $22 billion, llics new to voting. man Development Index used by Delivedng the pmty's first budget ... ptice inc1eases, or in my view, down from $31.5 billion that had For insl:mcc, kel,md, where a p,u-- the United Nations. The HD! ranks in a generation, Brown said he will unemployment." been projected under the previous 1iament was established in the 10th countries by a combination of fac inc1ease 1-evenues by$ I7 billion over The money will be used to fund a govemment. centuty, placed seventh-highest in tors such as life- expectancy and tl1e next two fiscal yem-s. progrrun for 250,000 unemployed "When the Labor Pmty said it had turnout in the 1990s. child mortality. Measutes to raise 1-evenues in young people who will be offe1ed no plans to inctease tax. at all, they 1-·-·------·-···--····------·-··-····---.... ····-···- .. ·············· ... ,,._ .... _...... ·1 cluded abolishing tax ctedit~ paid to A trader on the floor of the London International Financial Futures pension funds, inc1easing taxes on state-subsidized jobs or training - didn't mean a word of it," declared Exchange (LJFFE) in action after the new Labour government unveiled :md th1eatened witl1 welfare. benefit Conservative Pruty leader Willirun I i gasoline, tobacco and automobiles, its first budget Wednesday. Springing a surprise in his first budget, Russia's gold, foreign ru1d wiping out tax bteaks that the cuts if they 1-efuse. Hague. "Other people are going to Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown revealed a cut of corpora l. Conservative government gave Companies will also get $125 have to pay for the Labor Party bteak tion taxes and announced a five-year program to sharply reduce state borrowing. AP I exchange reserves soar I people over 60 who canied p1ivate weekly to bite from among------, 350,000 ing its election promises." \ I MOSCOW (AP) - In a nu-e bit of Dubinin said growth will slow in j 1 good financial news from Russia, coming months, but he still expects I BritishMDs I the country's gold and foreign ex- overall rese1ves to rise as dem,md I 1997... I change reserves have 1isen sluupl y for the Russhm cum,ncy increasCs. back.use of · I tliis yem·, reaching a record high of If demand for 11.1bles increases I .. I dlrs 23.8 billion, officials said as expected, Russians will be sell- 1 manJuana I Wednesday. ing forei1:,'ll money to purchase I A Year of Liberating i The figure is up from <.llrs 15.3 the Russian currency. Many Rus- chemicals· Up to 104 Western Sahara children arrive at Asturias airport in northern Spain Wednesday. The children, / billion at the beginning of the year, sians hold dollars and other for- I from the Tindouf refugee camp in southern Algeria, will spend their summer holidays with Asturian families. Russia's Central Bank said. eign cun-encies to gum·d against EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) Accomplishments Formerly Spanish. Western Sahara has endured a long running war between Morroco and pro-indepen Central Bank Chai1111art~(!['_g~i __ . _in~a~on in Russia. .. . _ ... j Thc British Medical J\ssociation rec dence Pofisario forces. AP onunended WcdnesJay that some of the mcxxl-altering chemicals in 1rnui ju:ma be legalizeJ, but stopped sh01t of calling for full acceptmice of the banned herb. The group, m1xious a!Jout repo1ts Happy that some patient, obtain the herb also called cannabis - from Jrng dealer, inordert01elieve their suffer ing, pa,sed tl1e 1-esolution al tl1e m1- nual gatl1cri11g of Btitain 's doctors. Liberation Somcresem-chsuggesL,tl1atchemi cals in cmmabis may be usefu I in treating a vatiety of conditions, in * MTC completed its $14 million undersea fiber optic cluding ce1cbral palsy, multiple scle rosis, epilepsy, asthma, ,md eating cable linking our islands and putting a new world of Day disordc1,. communications within our reach. Only two cmmabis dc1ivatives c.u1 presently be used leg~lly in B1itain to * MTC upgraded its state-of-the-art cellular service on stem tl1e nausea caused by cancer To the People of the tteatment~. One has to be impo1ted Saipan. from the United States mid both can MTC's reduced the interisland rate between Saipan, only be used in the hospital. * C.ommonwealth of the "Hundreds of our patients are i_".,.,;, ,;,.,:: •.•. Tinian and Rota to just 15 'I. , ' 'i' FRIDAY.JULY 4, 1997-M.i\RIANAS VARIETY Nl:WS AND VIJ:WS-53 1997 -.-~--. ------r 52-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS ANQYIEWS-FRIDAY-JULY 4. NATO invitations to coine Hebron riots continue By TERENCE HUNT cm aiichor in areas where Europe WASHINGTON (AP) - Still faces its biggest security risks. - "God is great!" - as tl1ey ran rity official said two Palestinians. tiers arc consiJcrcd tr;1i tors. squabbling with allies. the White Nine of r:iATO's 16 members towm'd ls1~1di u·oops in1iotge:u·,hurl Ayash Daoud, 45, and Hosni Also Wednesday, Nctanyahu House offered assurances that it have expressed varying support ing rocks and fir-ebombs. Fayez. 50, were detained for al told his police and justice minis expects Romania and Slovenia for admitting the two southern 'Israeli media reports said the am1y legedly selling land to Jewish set tcr·s to enforce laws against illegal cvcnlllallv to be invited to join states. The u;1iteu States has lob moved 1-einforcements to Hebron tlers in the 1980s. building by Arabs in east Jerusa NATO - hut not at next week ·s bied hard to limit membership on Wedne~day, including an elite Land is at the heart of the Is lem. and to demolish them if nec summit in Madrid. just now. arguing that Romania unit. raeli-Arab dispute, and Palestin essary, Nctanyahu ·s adviser· "The answer is not ·110', but ;md Slovenia do not yet meet the Meanwhile. a Palestinian secu- ians who sell land to Jewish set- Daviu 13ar-Illan said. ·no at this time."' said Sandy alliance's standards. Berger. President Clinton· s na While the administration had tion:il scrnritv adviser. "The ques hoped to reach consensus before tion is not wiicther. but when." the summit, Berger told a White The adrninistration' s unw avcr House briefing, "I think there ·s a in!l stand against immediate irwi divided view ... He predicted a tations to Slovenia and Romania "livelv Ji·scussion"Tucsdav. add !.!Uarantees a last-minute fight ing. "At the end of the day. ·1 think Tuesday when Clinton joins the it·; fair 10 say that there will be a leaders of 15 other NA TO nations consensus on the three ... in Madrid to lorrnallyoffcr NATO NATO membership brings positions to new members. countries under the alliance's ex There is consensus among the trnoruinary security blanket.guar allies to bring Poland. Hungary anteeing an attack against any and the Czech Republic into the nation will be regarded as an at al Iiance:and Cl in ton wants to holu tack against all. WhUe Berger spoke of even the line there. National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, right, addresses reporters Wednesday !n the White House briefir!g France wants to include Roma tual membership for Romania and room. The Clinton administration said the US will offer stronger ties to the m1l1tary al/Janee for potential nia, and Italy wants to incluue Slovenia. Defense Secretary Wil members. From left are: White House Press Sec. Mike Mccurry, Deputy State Sec. Strobe Talbott and Slovenia to give NATO a south- liam Cohen indicated that the next Defense Sec. William Cohen. AP round of invitations would wait at least until a NATO summit in ~w;ttt~ 1999. "That would be one point at which, presumably, this would be reviewed," Cohen said. ~t~-~Jt'.'~ U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott met Wednesday with ·10 the people of the CNMl NATO Secretary General Javier i Solana in Brussels, Belgium, say I. * Israeli border police officers arrest a Palestinian man after two Israeli i;:r * * * ing afterwards that the discussion troops were hurt by a pipe bomb thrown at them m the West Bank city I * -I:! in~luded "the importance of keep of Hebron Tuesday. Fifteen Palestinians were injured by rubber bullets * u ing the door to NATO open after in the c:lashes. AP * Madrid." Remembering our past * * i;:r By Samar Assad ings, which wer-e appm-ently aimed at * But he also said there is con HEBRON, West Bank (AP) - defusing tensions. cern that the alliance's new part -!:," u * In the firebomb-scorched alleys Sev~n Palestinians, induuing a is key to growing our future. -!:, nership with Russia "could lead of Hebron and the sand dunes of 12-year·-old boy, were wounded by to a weakening of NA TO." He Gaza, Israeli troops fired live live fire in the legs, and 30 wer-e hit by -!:, * * called the prospects of the Senate rounds and rubber bullets mbberbullets.111einjuredwe1-egiven Visit the Bank of Saipan and experience ratifyingNATO'sexpansiongood Wednesday to quell Palestinian first aid at a makeshift clinic - ,m * {;{ but added, "we should recognize riots. One protester was killed and ambulance, astletcherand two nurses the ease of banking with local hospitality. that the opponents of NATO en dozens were wounded. - set up in a near·by gas station. largement are organized ,md are * Palestinian police did nothing The clashes in Gaza beg:m when * making their case." to calm tempers th,it were in about2CXJ Palestini,m protesters threw Clinton and his wife, Hilhuy, leave flamed by an anti-Muslim leaflet stones at Israeli bulldozers leveling * Washington late Friday. after the in Hebron and a land dispute with sand dunes near the Gush Katif Jew Fourth of July ti reworks, ,md 11y to Jewish settlers in the Gaza Strip. ish settlement. TI1e Palestini,ms say Spain for a weckenu vacation on the Vasser Arafat's West Bank se the l,md belongs to them. Happy resrnt isLmd of Mallorca. ·n1ey will curity chief, Jibrii Ra jouh, warned Israel troops took cover behind ,mive in Madiid on Monday. the violence would only get worse jeeps, filing live rounus ,md tem· g:L, From the summit, Clinton will 11y unless Israeli Prime Minister Ben canisters to disperse the stone to Warsaw on July !Otocongrntulate jamin Netanyahu implemcnL~ the throwers. One protester, 18-yem·-oid Polanu on itsinvitation.111enextuay. peace a6,reement, the two sides have MaherAss,u·, w:L, killed by a gunshot Liberation the president will stop in Buchm-est, signed. to the chest. Romania's capital, to stress that "We me not in cilrn'ge of gu,u·uing 'll1e teen-agcr's timeral procession NATO's doors will remain open, Netanyahu 's policies against the Pal later in the day wa, joined by hun then goes to Copenhagen forthe filst estinian people," Rajoub said-con dreds of mou111e1s ch:mting "No to U.S. state visit toNATOp,utnerDen tradicting Neumyahu 's claims that settlements'" :md "We will give Olll' m,u-k. He is to 1etum to the Uniteu Israel :md the Palestinim1s have re Jives to defend our lcmdl" It W,Ls Day! States July 12. Meanwhile, U.S. sumed security cooperation. accomp:micu by a convoy of Pales Sec1-etaJyofState Madeleine Aib1ight R,\joub took U.S. Consul General tini,m pol ice ems. is expected to go toS lovenia, Lithu,mia Edwmtl Abington on a tour of the ll1e Hebron violence w:L, uig From the management & staff of: from the Staff & Management ,md the Czech Republic. and Cohen Hebron clash;s in whid1 dozens of gcrcd by anger over anti-Muslim !li is going after Madiid to Bulg:.ufa Palestini,ms threw I'tKks m1rJ fire crs disu·ibutcd by an Israeli woman of your Saturday bank 111e defense sec1-ei:.uy also is to bombs at Israeli soldiers. Israeli snip over the weekend. 'flit~ leallcL,, de trnvel to Budapest to meet with Hun ers were perched on rooftops, fiting picting the Prophet Mohmrnned :Ls a gmian officials ,md visit with U.S. live rounds at the legs of rioters. pig stomping on the Kor:m, the Mus troops temporarily ueployed in SL111dingjust feet away, Abington lim holy book, wer-e posted on shops T,L,z:.u·, ne:u· Bosnia. He also is to said: "1l1e situation is very tense. We throughout Hebron. spend two days in the Ukraine. meet need restraint on both siues." 'The w01mm was m1-esteu mid w,Ls ing U.S. u·oops prnticipating in ,u1 Israel's Defense Minisuy sent a to be indicteu ll1u1sday, ,m Isrneli exercise with a Ukraini,u1 t,mk rc!!i message to Palcstinim1 :mu U.S. offi police commm1der said. He did not SABLAN ENTERPRISES, INC. GARAPAN: CHALAN KANOA: mcnt, w1d with dd'cnse officials 'in cials ;arning that Israel would be discuss the chmges. P.O. Box 690 Saipan. MP 96950 P.O. 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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - ing several Muslim officials. Islamic-led coalition. The prosecutor's office sum Turkey's new government on The Islamic-led government Ci lier has long been haunted moned Mrs. Ciller's husband, Wednesday launched an aggres on Monday rcsigned under pres by charges that she and her hus Ozer Ciller, for questioning sive campaign to roll back the sure from the military, which band became wealthy through Wednesday about the couple's gains of the Islamic-led coali regards itself as the main guar co1Tuption, but she survivect'sev holdings, the Anatolia news tion it replaced just two days antor of Turkey's secular sys cral parliamentary investiga agency said. ago. tem. tions with votes from her Is Newspapers also said pros Turkey's secular leaders be Investigators, meanwhile. lamic allies. ecutors were investigating al gan reversing pro-Islam poli took aim at Tansu Ci I!er, a "They are trying to finish me legations Mrs. Ciller had cies. stopped construction on a former prime minister who was off." Mrs. Ci lier said in a speech worked for the Central Intelli gence Agency since 1967. The new prime minister, Mcsut Yilmaz, is a bitter rival of Ciller's. He replaced Tansu Giller Necmettin Erbakan, leader of the "anti-secula.- forces" trying the Islamic Welfare Party,with TO THE " a pledge to maintain modern to return Turkey to what he Turkey's secular system. called the "Dark Ages." On Wednesday, he halted The statement came in sup PEOPLE OF pending government payments port of pro-secularism rallies and froze all recent government Wednesday marking the fourth appointments. Erbakan had tried anniversary of a fire set by a CNMI to install Islamic bureaucrats at mob shouting Islamic slogans. key posts and give companies The blaze, which has become a loyal to his Welfare party gov symbol of Islamic intolerance, ernment contracts. killed 37 secular writers. "My government will not In another development, a give any leeway to radical Is court ordered an Islamic poet lam," Yilmai vowed. and politician to pay $20,000 in Also on Wednesday, Culture damages to the Navy chief. The Minister Istemihan Talay called case was part of the mi Ii tary 's off the construction of a mosque pressure campaign against the at a castle where archeological ousted the.Islamic government. finds are displayed. In a poem read in Parliament, "It is an obligation of modernity Yasin Hatipog\u called Gen. to have cultural valuables exhib Guven Erkaya "a fool" for call I /., L.-.. -.id. .... ,.,····-··-· .. ···--·---·-.. --·····-·- . . ited in museums," Talay said. ing Islamic radicalism a threat f The Silk-Road Caravan Team arrives at the presidential palace in Ankara on last June 20. The team The culture minister also is on a par with Turkey's Kurdish consisting of three Turks, an American, nine camels and two dogs, set off from China 13 months ago to re sued a statement vowing to fight rebellion. enact the journey of ancient traders of the Silk Road. The expedition ended last month. AP We Salute the People of the CNMI . . . in their Celebration of Liberation Day! Prom tlie 1vtanagement el Staff of Marianas' Sign of Qualitv Past, Present & Future. Have a Happy & Safe ENTERPRISES, INC. P.O. BOX 137 SAIPAN t.{lP 96950 TEL. (670) 234-6445/48 • FAX: (670) 234-5876 ..,,....., 1 .. ...u ·-1,siu•@ ..... Hardware JJ NAPA MARIANAS ~ J.C. TENORIO Joeten Motor Construction & FINANCIAL .AUTO MANAGEMENT SAIPAN STEVEDORE CO. INC. ENTERPRISES, INC. Company, Inc. Material Supply, Inc. SERVICES PARTS CORPORATION P.O. BOX 208, LOWER BASE, SAIPAN, MP 96950 ' cCI& cCI& TEL: 322-9320 • FAX: 322-8568 GUAM SAIPAN ,1 '· . ' ·; -...,....,.=="'"-~-----~-- I~ 56-MARIANAS .Y ARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY- JULY 4, 1997 FRIDAY. JULY 4, 1997 -MARIANAS VARll:TY NEWS _AND VIEWS-57 Building collapses in Pakistan I \, I Egypt farmers, police clash ASSIUT, Egypt (AP) - Fifty day as farmers fought with police Cairo, were questioning 61 pro law has enraged poor farmers, who in return to those farmers;"' one farmers were j,liled Wednes in the village of Al-Mahala Al testers and seeking 69 others who have launched protests and started Mubarak said, adding tha,t only 35 \Vorkers buried alive day after a deadly clash with po Kubra, 65 miles north of Cairo, fled after the melee. organizing to overturn it. about 5 percent of farmers wi JI be forced to move because of the By GHULAM HASNAN look for yourself. It is all dust and lice over :.i new law that will police officials said. Dozens of The new law, which goes into President Hosni Mubarak was KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - sand.·• said Mohammed sha1vly raise rents on agricultural people were arTested after pro effect Oct. l, removes rent con quoted by Egyptian newspapers ne\v law. Dozens of construction workers Munawar, a firefighter who land, police said. testers tried to set fire to a farm trols from agricultural lands, al Wednesday as saying that many The government has accused stepped carefully ,~round the Police shot and killed three cooperativ·e, the police said. lowing landlords to charge mar farmers who are unable to pay left-leaning opposition parties of were buried Wednesday when a partially constructed rivc-story building listening for the sounds people during Tuesday's confron Prosecutors in the southern ket value for their properties. rents will be relocated to reclaimed backing the protests. 01· survivors. tation with rioting farmers, in province of el-Minya, about 110 Annual rents in some cases would desert areas that the government Officials, including Interior apartmcnt building collapsed in this southern port city, A huge crane was at the site in cluding a 70-year-okl farmer and miles south of the capital Cairo, double or triple. is promoting. Minister Hassan el-Alfy, have said Rescue workers du~ 1hromd1 the poor northern neighborhood a 14-year-old boy, the police said. accused the 51 farmers impris · Part of a government drive to "I would like.to clarify that the the government has no plans to the rubble and rcco\;ercd o~c of Karachi gingerly removing Thirteen demonstrators were in oned Wednesday of attacking ci privatize the economy, the new government will offer new land retract the law. body, They also freed nine other steel girders and cement pilings jurcd in the mckc. vilians and police. blocking trans workers, several of whom were in in search of more workers. said It marked the first time that portation and conspiring to dam serious condition. witnesses. Egyptian police had killed dem age public installations. The construction site m,1nager. Police and officials, who ar onstrating farmers. Several farm The officials, whospokeoncon who didn't want to give his name. rived on the scene. said that the ers have been sl:1in in previous dition ofanonymity, said pros workers were on the second story clashes with landowners. ecutors in the villages of Mattia .said there wen.: al least 35 ll'ork having thci r lunch whrn the bu i Rioting flared again Wednes- and Samalut, 125 miles south of ers in the building when it col tc.i lapsed around 110011 local ti me. ing collapsed. Akbar Gui, wlwse brother Bcsidt.: the devastated build iShoppers attacked in Bahrain I Kashta Gui died when the build ing stood a row of other apart ing colh1pscd, said he was next lo ment builuings, some part.ially A view of collapsed fi~e-story apartment building in Karachi, Wednesday. Dozens of construction workers I MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) firing tear gas. It was not his brothc1· when tlw earth began constructed, some n.::wly com were buried when a partially constructed building collapsed. Rescue workers are still searching for trapped j - Several dozen men armed immediately known if there r to shudder. - pleted. workers. AP / with rocks beat· merchants were any anests. . , "I just felt like there was an I and sh0ppers, forcing The re<1son for the attack I' e,1rthquake or something, .. said I , stores in the old, central was not known, but anti-gov- Gui, who was buried beneath the i ! market area of Mana-ma' to , ernrnent activists have re- rubble for at least one hour. \ i close Wednesday. sorted to vio.lence to push i Unconscious for most of the \ ' Witnesses said the gang, their demands for political I' 01·dc,d. Gui said he heard his i numbering at least 40,ap- and social reforms. Nearly brother's cries for help in their Let us honor those men and women ! proached stores - many of 40 people have diedsince , native l',1shtu language. Both men : which sell electronic gear, December 1994. :ire f'rom Pakistan ·s Northwest who gave their lives fighting for : videos and tapes - shout- The activists are led by Frontic1· Province and had come j ing .. Get out. Close down Shiite Muslims who form a to Karachi, the country's largest ! now." slight majority of Bahrain's city of 14 mi 11 ion people. in search freedom ... / The attackers, believed to 400,000 citizens. The ruling r or work. / be militant Shiite Muslims, - Al Khalifa family belongsjo · 'I'm fine. but my brnthcr was l were dispersed by riot police the Sunni sect Qf I,slam. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, right, meets with PLO Leader Yasser Arafat, Thursday, in Cairo. Arafat right ·beside me and now he is discussed the stalled Middle East peace process. AP ------·-····---·--·-··------··------g(me, ·· said GuL There was no immediate cause of the collapse but firefighters on the sc.:nc saiu the construction material was shoddy. "Just Nigeria sets Happy liberation Day _presidential· elections -- ¥-\· ABU.IA, Nigeria (AP) - . ~ . Presidential elections to re . .. ' turn Nigeri:1 to civilian rule all ;\ug. : to the people ll'ill lil' hc·ld I. I lJlJ8, an .. •···* . .J;,.. •• •••.. "1r· . election commission an- 110u1wed Wednesday ...... **,··· ,... . \ Nigerians will also elect • governors for the country's :rn • • states, the: Transition Imple ofC ! mentation Committee said. The Bank of Guam joins the The handover of power will From the Management & Staff of take place OcL I, 1998. Earlier this week, Jimmy Island residents of the Carter said he had received assurances during a mcetin!.! Commonwealth of the with Nigerian military rule~· Gen. Sani J\bacha that the elections would go .1hcad as Northern Mariana Islands in schcdukd next year. But opposition groups say celebrating your Liberation Abacha harbors ambitions to run for the presidency himself Day. and will ignore a pledge to turn the country over to a ci vili:rn government. Abacha scizeu power in a HaLzna's 1993 coup after annulled presidential elections which businessman Moshood A biol a ~ankof~uam Kitchen was widely believed to have ]le Local Bank. The People's Bank. won. Mtmb.rFDIC Ground Floor, Afetna Square, San Antonio A year later, Abiola was P.O. Box 678 Saipan, MP 96950 • Garupan (670) 233-5000/5001 • Susup~ (670) 234-6801/6-l68 Tel.: 235-7938 jailed on treason charges after San Roque (670) 323-1010/1011 • Tinian (670) 433-3258/3261 • Rola (670) 532-0340/4 l I declaring himself president. 1 He is currently .iwaiting trial. --~' •' ·,.:J , II, -----~------··------·------FRID~ Y, JUL!'.__4,_~1_9~~--MA~~N~§-~~Rl~TY NEWS AND 58-l\l,\Rl,\N,\S \',\RIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY- JULY 4. 1997 vrnws-59 Congo peace plm1 OK'd ColU1Dbia holds fire test By Marcia Dunn ing out 2-foot fhm1cs ,md spewing with repr~sentatives of Sassou pmtics," he said. •· By Louis Okamba Fonner Jictator Denis Sassou Brazzaville Mayor Bernard --.~.. ·•·•..'.'.·.·.·· But the apparent breakthrough CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) chunks of molten meutl - pointed BRAZZA \'ILLE, Republic of N!!ucsso anJ PresiJent Pascal Kolelas, who ha~ been mediating the N6,uesso on Thursday to get similm· out tl1c need for a better undersumd ·,, came amid a backdrop of rutille1y fire - Back for a sizzling encore, Congo (AP)-hcn ;L~ shelling ;mJ Li;souba, lockeJ in a power snuggle peace efforts, told national radio assurances from them. Columbia's ,LstronauLs be;,u, seltin~ in!! of flames in weightlessness. '"·... ,, ' iJ1 "For now, can't say that then~ is in downtown Brnzzaville and sur ,,,...·.·~ ~ guntin: 1ip1xJ through the capital for more th.u1 a month, have accused Wednesday that Lissouba for the first I foes abom·d the space ;huttle o~ NASA,LstronautJeny Li~enger, who rounding ,ueas latcWednesday fol .. I WeJncsday. a mcJiatmsaiJ the pn:si each other .of responsibility for the time had personally accepted a peace light at the end of the tunne:, but with Wednesday in hopesofle:uning mrne w,Ls on Mir al the time, said he was lowing a quiet overnight. I dcnt had signed on roa peace pl:m thar cullapse of the mostrecentcea,;c-fire, plm1 recently negotiated in neighbor the agreement of the president of the about the spread offlamcs in weight stunned at how quickly smoke filled I Kolel;L,' committee announced a· follows sc1·cral bmkcn r111ccs in this agreed to FriJay. Each says their own ing Gabon. republicwemeonamadthatwill lead lessness. the station. us to negotiations between the two tiuce F1iday, saying it was pmt of a ceno·al :\t)ic;u1 nation. firing has been defensive. Kolelas wa.s scl1eduled to meet 1l1e seven-member crew also got Du1ing theiraboned flight in April, I peace phm both sides had accepted to see the scene of 1he w01,t foe e~er Columbia's astronauts got to set only 1 that included proposals for a govern I in space - Russia's broken-do11m 14 fires before they had to 111sh home I ment of national unity to p1epme for Mirswtion, glinting in the sunlight as because of a defective power genera :u1d ovcr:;ee p1esidential elections, as il p,L,scd within 70 ~ilesof the sl;uttle. trn~ this is a repeat of that mission. wc:11 ,L'i the deployment of fon;ign In the tirst of 144 combustion tesL, Voss_ said some or the fire experi TO THE PEOPLE O~-THE COMMONWEALTH peacekeepers in the Republic of plmined for the 16-day mission, as ments wcte 1edesigned a little be Congo. uunaut Janice Voss ignited a small tween llights tmd already have led to ·nie ~ovcmmcnt also has offc1ed ,m10untofl1ydroc:ubo;fuel inalliple improved 1esults. OF THE NORTH RN MARIANA ISIANDS the: Unit~d Nations$ I million towm'd seaicd chrunber to obse1ve soot pro The shuttle astronauts also spent the cost of sustaining a multinational duction. their fost full day in orbit growing peacekeeping force in the Republic "We 're ready to start burning protein c1ystals mid foing up a mewl melting furnace tliat can operate at up of Congo. U:N. Sccrct:uy-General tl1ings," Voss t0ld ground controllers. to 3,000 degrees. Kofi Ann,m h:L, proposed such a Scientists say the combustion re "All of us rue mmveling at how force:, but only if botl1 sides demon semch will help improve spacecraft safety mid 1educe air pollution on much it feels like we just left he1e strate they ,m:: commillcd to a ce,L,e .. HAPPY Earth. yesterday,"Vosssaid. ''lt'sbeenmuch ·~411!'. lirc. Mir's fire in !--eb111m)' - a solid easier to get back into the swing of l.. lf~i\.'.!F~r<~t.~-- ~~'* "Ilic government ·s offer of fimm fuel oxygen generator ignited, shoot- things." ~ ~ cial ,L,sist,mcc w,L, made in a letter Astronaut Gregory Linteris works to activate the Laminar Soot Processes experiment in the Space/ab module Altogether, Columbia's bus-size of the space shuttle Columbia Wednesday in this image from NASA television. Columbia is in its first day of dated June 30 and sent to Kofi Anmm laboratory contains 33 experiments. a planned 16-day mission. AP from Daniel Abibi, the Republic of Mir's crew LIBERATION Congo's ambassador. The leller will now be presented to the Secu1ity prepares f ~r * Council. Anmm'sAfric;menvoy,Mohamed .trip into· S,tlmoun, is expected to b1ief the Secuiity Council on Thursday about ·module DAY diplomatic eff01ts to end the fighting. HAPPY LIBERATION DAY Sever,tl trnces have been strnck By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV July 4, 1997 ,uid then quickly bmken since June 5, MOSCOW (AP) -The tl1rce-111,m when Lissouba sent troops to dismrn crew on the Mir space su1tion made Sassou-Nguesso's Cobra militia. preprn·ations W cdiiesday fora c111cial Lissouba said he w,mted to avoid any uip into a damaged mcx.lule whe1e q,,,_ tk, ~ C. u,.g 4 i.lis111ption of presidential elections they will attempt to restore power lost schcdukd for July 27; Sassou in a serious collision a week ago. Nguessoclaimed thcp1esidentpicked The ·Mir Jost half of its power ~HAKUBOTAN a fight so he would have ,m excuse to June 25 wheq a cargo supply ship Duty Free delay the vote. slammed into one of its six mod r-" Lissouba h:L, since called for a ules during a practice redocking. three-month extension of his mm1- Russian llight controllers say the To the People datc, now scheduled to expin; at the trip into the airless Spektr module, end of August. tentatively planned for July 1 I, is In a radio address Tuesday, necessary to replenish the reduced of the Lissoubaaccused his rival of fighting energy supply. In another tkvclopmenl for control of state petroleum rev Wednesday. the cargo ship lh,1t hit enues, which he said had increased Ilic :V!ir \\'US di,carded at I 0:32 Commonwealth steadily over the last two ye,u;; be We Salute the ,1.111. rvJo"·m1· 1i111e (0632 CiMT) cause of new partnerships with lor ,111d hurncd up in the earth's at1110- cign oil comp;mics. ,phcrc," er the· l'c1ci tic ( kcan soon of the People of the CNMI Lissouba and Sassou-Nguesso a1·tcr11anls.said Vern Mcdvedkova. have waged a pmpag,uida w,/along a spokcs11·0111a11 for the for the in their Celebration side tlicir battles with moruu, ,md l{u;sian tvlission Control Center. automatic weapons, tliough few of Northern Mariana Islands of Liberation Day! their accusations c.m be confim1cd. July 4, 1997 On Monday, Sassou-Nguesso ac 1 Happy Birthday 1 :, cused Lissouba of usin; Libcri:u1 Serbian and ~ Anoolar; '-:.;_.- Happy mercenaries.Earlier, Lissoub~ had said Sassou-Ngucsso's force was EDDIE lxilstcred by R\~;md:uis. ·n,c lighting has n::duccd several 1 Hrazzaville neighlxirhoods to 111bblc PELAGIO and forced thousm1ds of n::sidents to ·From Your 11cc the city. Aid worke1;;say tl1ey :ue From the management & staff of' unable to collect corpses from the Friends streets because of the d,m!!erofbcino caught in cross-lire. ~ " The chief representative in Braa11villc of tl1c United Nations Happy Birthday I u Children's Fund (UNICEF) said in a statement Wednesday that it w,L, a "moral imperative of both wmTing HENRY ...,. parties" to a Ilow hu mani tari,111 as MASTERCARD sistance lo reach all parts of the VISA CARD city. ii FIESTA CARD Dr. Eric L1rnche said that emer BOLANOS AMEXCARD Greetings from I" gency assistance so 1';11· has been ACCEPTED Ii mi tcd mai nl v to southern arc as Josie & Ricky because of fi;hlino in the north anti central ar~as of the city. I, ~·r.··,' ______X__RIDA Y, JULY 4, 1997 -MA_RI~NAS VARIETY f\1-~~~ ~ND YIE\YS,6} 60-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIE~W~S~-F!:)R~I_QD~A!_Y.:..:-J!_.!:ULI!,.lY~4!,._, .lil9l-9_97?______-;---~--::--=~---=--::---- Iran pays $34M for Jim.m.y Stewart dies at 89 By John Horn more the average-looking guy next he doesn't watch his step," he downed jet victims BEVERL YHILLS,Calif.(AP) door. once said. He was best known for his role as He worked with some of action against Inmian gunboats. Jimmy Stewmt, the stammering, aw TEHRAN, Iran (AP)- Irnn has paid of h:an's official International Legal shucksactorwhoembodiedthcsmall a suicidal businessman who finds J-Iol1ywood's most distinguished di Washington said tl1e Vincennes $34.5 million in compensation to the Services Bureau, Goodru-z Eftekhar redemption in the 1946movie "It's a rectors, including Alfred Hitchcock, mistook the airliner for a hostile Ira town values of decency and moral fmnilies of Irm1iaris killed when a Jahromi. courage both in his life and on the Wonderful Life," one of the most who put him in such stylish thrillers nian fighter jet. jetliner was shot dovm by a U.S. The govemmeL1t also paid dlrs scn:e1;, died Wednesday. The star of beloved films ever and Stewart's per as "Rope," "Vertigo" and "Rear Win Irnn filed a case against the United wmship in 1988, a newspaper re 150,000 to the families of otl1er vic "It's a Wonde1ful Life" and "Mr. sonal favorite. dow ," and John Ford ("Two Rode States at the World Court in May po11ed Wednesday. tims, such as non-working women, Smith Goes to Washington" was 89. In "Mr. Smith Goes to Washing Together," "How the West Was 1989 but settled the case out of court · The Iran News daily said compen retirees ;md children, the English StewartdiedathishomeinBeverly ton" in 1939, he was an idealistic Won"). in Feb111aiy last year. sation was paid to 143 families. Au hmguage paper said. Hills from a blocxl clot in his lung. young senator who challenges the Born in 1908, James Maitland · '111e two countries have not had tl101ities were still uying to locate the The downing of the plane took Fighting illness and mourning the backroom deals and opportunism on Stewart was a spindly, bespectacled families of 32 victims. place in the final weeks of the 198(}. diplomi1tic relations since the 1979 dcaLl1 of his wife, he had become Capitol Hill. InoneofStewart's most youngster who staged plays in the The Airbus A-300 was mistak 88 war between Iran and Iraq when seiwreof the U.S. Embassy in Tehmn something of a recluse toward the end famous lines, he says: "I wouldn't family basement and first acted in a enly shot down in the Gulf July 3, U.S. Navy ships in the Gulf were in by Muslim militants. of his life. give you two cents for all your .fancy Boy Scout production. He studied 1988 by a r;nissile fired from the Stewart conjured up some of the rules if behind them they didn't have architecture at Princeton University. cruiser USS Vincennes. most memorable perfonmm1ces in a little bit of plain, ordinary kindness He played accordion with the uni All 290peopleon board, including Probers brief victims cinemahistory.lnmorethan75 films, and a little lookin' out for the other versity drama group, dabbledin magic some foreigners, were killed. The a distinguished military career and fella." and, after graduation, got a job in Iran Air jet was flying from lhe Ira exemplary private life, he emerged as Stewart won a best actor Acad summer theater with the University nian port city of Bandar Abbas to of Paris subway blast a symbol of old-fashioned American emy Award for 1940's 'The Phila Players in Ma~sachusetts, working Dubai, United Arnb Emirates. piinciples. delphia Story" and was nominated with Henry Fonda and Margaret Last year, the United States paid By NICOLAS MARMIE announced. "America lost a national treasure four other times. Sullavm1. dlrs 61.8 million in compensation to PARIS (AP) - Anti-terrorist judges The judges met with victims and today," President Clinton said. "He was just a great human being. Stewart made his feature film President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, right, receives in audience the families. W e . ,' FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1997 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND V!EWS-63 ~ .•. I,, 62-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRID/\ Y- JULY 4. 1997 Fed leaves interest rates alone Warren report 'altered' Kennedy. Those photos show the au second decline in three months. By Mike Feinsilber But lawyer Gerald Posner. By DAVE SKIDMORE author of "Case Closed," a "Only Warren saw the au topsy doctors got it wrong. The WASHINGTON (AP) - The Fed The backlog of unfi Iled orders at WASHINGTON (AP) 1993 book that accepts· the top-sy pictures and X-rays." entry was in the high upper eral Rcse1ve gave Amcricrn1 OOffOW factories wa, unchm1ged following Thirty-three years ago, Gerald Warren conclusio.ns, said the Posner said. '"He deemed them neck, higher than where the ers a vacation from higher interest decn:,L-es in Ap1il mid Mm-d1. 111at R. Ford took pen in hand and death certificate was based on so horrendous he did not pass doctors mark it on thei1· rates,opting towaitandsecifthe U.S. shows mmiufactu1c:rs were keeping changed - ever so slightly - GReennqs .anO Happy. erroneous drawings by the them around, -even to other dr·awings,which the death cc:r economy's best inflation pe1fo1mm1ce up with the flow of new orders ,md the Warren Commission's key doctors who autopsied members of the commission. ti ficate was based on." since the 1960s hl~L~ deeper into the that the1c: is little dm1ger for now of sentence on the place where a summer. inflation-causing delivery delays ,md bullet entered John F. LzheRarron Da · . ·· sho1tages. Kennedy's body when he was · Afteratwo-day meeting ofiL~ Fed ernl Open Mrn·ket Committee, the ·Toe easing in growth we ·ve seen killed in Dallas. central b,mksignaled Wednesdaytl1at came just in the nick of time. If the1c: The effect of Ford's change it had left the benchmm-k federal funds Wll~ ,my evidence the economy w,L'i was to strengthen the TO The PeopLe op NMI. growing mrn'kedly greatertl1an 2 pcr commission's conclusion that Our culture, our dignity, borne in a rate on overnight loan~ between b:mks )'%, I~ at 5.5 percent. ·cent. on top of the fiN qurnter. I don't a single bullet passed through see how they cou Id have failed to Kennedy and severely '<11'"'\' . .~/ The decision had been widely ex ;t1 pected rn1d at first Wall Street showed raise rates," said economist Paul wounded Texas Gov. John democracy are simple reminders of /. ':,,!. ,,.--- little reaction. But tl1e Dow Jones Getmrn1 of Regional Fimmcial Asso Connally - a crucial element ave1~1ge of indusllial stocks staged a ciates in West Chester.Pennsylv,mia. in its finding that Lee Harvey Gerald R. Ford late adv,mce rn1d c,m1e within about a 1l1e question bcfrnc: policy-mak Oswald was the sole gunman. what it is to be FREE. body '"at the back of his neck" point of b1c:aking its June 20 1c:cord m at their Aug. l 9 mid Sept. 30 A smal I change, said Ford rather than in his_ uppermost close. It finished tl1e day at 7,795.38, meetings will be whether growth on Wednesday when it came back, as the commission staff up 73.05 poinL~. bounces back in the second half of the to light, one intended to clarify originally wrote. An inc1c:ase in the benchm,u-k rate yem· to the point where p1ices stmt meaning, not alter history. Ford's handwritten notes would have quickly translated into accelernting. '"My changes had nothing to do with a conspiracy theory," were contiiined in 40,000 higher bo1rnwing costs for millions So farthis year, inflation has been pages of records kept by J. Congratulations to the people of the of businesses ,md consumers on ev decelerating. Consumer p1ices have he said in a telephone inter view from Beaver Creek, Lee Rankin, chief counsel of erything from auto lo.ms to credit risen at just a 1.4 percent ,mnual rate. Colo. ''My changes were only the Warren Commission. C,Ul!s. And that eventually would have less thm1 half hL,t ye:u·'s. 1l1at's the Northern Mariana Islands on the best pe1fom1,mce in three decades an attempt to be more pre They were made public slowed economic growth. Wednesday by the Assassina But Fed policy-makers apparently ,md ha, astonished economists who cise." , tion Record Review Board, an F'l,C~ U,e, ~ <:t.. ~ c~: decided growtl1 hm; slackened suffi believed it could not coexist with ,u1 But still, his editing was agency created by Congress Celebration of our Liberation Day. ciently on iL~own from a fo,t-qu:uter unemployment rate at a 24-ye,u·-low seized upon by members of the conspiracy community, to amass all relevant evidence surge ut a 5.9 percent annual rate, of 4.8 percent in May. · in the case. The documents Saipan lee ll Water Co., lne. fa\testinnem·ly a decade. Mostecono "The inflation news is almost in which rejects the will be availa_blc to the public mist~ m-e looking for moderate, 2 credibly good in the face of what one commission's conclusion that in the National Archives. percent growth in-the Ap1il-Jurie pe- would normally think of as infla Oswald acted alone. From the Management & Staff of ··Tel. 322-9848/9455' ''This is the most signifi The staff of the commission 1iod. tionary growth numbers, espe cant lie in the whole Warren had written: "A bullet had en Signs of a slowdown alxiund, in cially the employment numbers," We·~A~~~ said Norman Robertson, eco Commission report," said tered his back at a point cluding a U.S. Commerce Deprnt slightly above the shoulder Since 1985 ment repon Wednesday that fact01y nomic adviser to Smithfield Trust Robert D.Morningstar, a com puter systems specialist in and to the right of the spine." orders fell 0.7 percent in May. the Co. in Pittsburgh. New York City who said he Ford suggested changing has studied the assassination that to read: "A bullet had en since it occurred and written tered the back of his neck at a P.O. Box 3516 CK, Saipan, MP 96950 an Internet book about it. point slightly lo the right of Tel: 234-6651 • Fax: ·234-3698 The effect of Ford's edit the spine." ing, Morningstar said, was to The final report said: "A suggest that a bullet struck bullet had entered the base of Kennedy in the neck, "raising the back of his neck slightly To the People of the the wound two or three inches. to the right of the spine." Without that alteration, they Ford, then House Republi Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands could never have hoodwinked can leader and later elevated the public as to the true num to the presidency with the ber of assassins." 1974 resignation of Richard The Warren Commission Nixon, is the sole surviving concluded in 1964 that a single member of the seven-mem bcr bullet - fired by a '"discon commission chaired by Chief tented" Oswald - passed Justice Earl Warren. ·through Kennedy's body and In the interview, he recalled wounded his fellow motorcade making the change, but said passenger, Conn,illy, and that that clarity, not conspiracy, a second, fatal bullet.fired was the purpose. from the same pliice, tore He said he supposed the through Kennedy's head. commission's overriding con The assassination of the clusion - that Oswald acted president occurred Nov. 22, alone- would always be chal 1963, in Dallas; Oswald was lenged, but"! think our judg arrested that day but was shot ments have stood the test of and killed two days later as he time." was being transferred from the James Laser, a lawyer who city jail to the county jail. runs the Assassination Conspiracy theorists reject Archive Research Center, the the idea that a single bullet largest non-governmental col could have hit both Kennedy lectiqn of materials on the as and Connally and done such sassination, said that both to the CNMI People. July 4, 1997 damage. Thus they argue that Ford's description and the a second gunman must have commission staff's 'were in been involved. conflict with the Kennedy Ford's changes tend to sup death certificate "which said port the single-bullet theory the bullet entered in the upper Greetings from the management & staff of: by making a specific point that back region. well below the the bullet entered Kennedy's neck." ~t}Aarianas 'Vc!rietr~ BUCKLE-UP SAIPAN! 64-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY- JULY 4, 1997 FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1997 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-65 ------·--·-·-·------. ------Wildfires hit South Calif. Severe storms hit Detroit AZUSA, Calif. (AP) - An east of San Diego and extin By John Hughes high as cars windshields. (AP)-High winds, heavy rains and act of fire prevention sparked guished an 80-acre wildfire in "We have officers now trying to possible tornadoes leveled some go through tl1e streets trying to make a l .300-acre blaze that raged Los Angeles. houses in the Detroit area Wednes sure everyone's OK," Ficano said. out of control Wednesday in The Azusa blaze was 50 per day evening and ripped the roofs off "It's still vel)', Ve!)' speculative." the rugged Angeles National cent contained Wednesday af others, uprooted trees, flocxled free He said police were watching for ternoon, U.S. Forest Service Forest, casting a smoky pall ways, toppled power lines and any signs of looting. spokesman Bruce Quintelier over the region. authorities knockedoutpowerforatleast 100,000 Gteg Jakub, a spokesman at St. said. said. people. John Hospital in Detroit, said 11 Inaccessible terrain and tem Four people, including one 1l1e National WeatherServicesaid people were brought to the hospital firefighter, were injured. none peratures in the 90s hampered it 1eceived unconfomed reports of at after a weather-related accident at seriously. One house was de the efforts of 800 least 12 tornado touchdowns in the Grosse Pointe Frums Pier Park. stroyed. firefighters,who were aided by central w1d southern Lower Penin Witnesses said the people hurt The Roberts Canyon blaze 11 water-dropping helicopters sula, fo1ecaster David Koehler said. we1e attending a party and we1e seek '.'.5 miles east of Los Angeles and four retardant-dropping Most were in Saginaw and Genesee ing shelter under a gazebo when the start..:d Tuesday afternoon as air tankers. counties, witl1 two in Macomb County strnm picked up the gazebo and blew a homeowner was clearing The stench of smoke and a wid one each in Wayne, Livingston it into the lake. brush with a weed whacker. brownish red haze spread :md Oakland counties, he said. In one Detroit neighbo1hocxl, wit said fire spokeswoman Rita across Los Angeles, San Ber Seve1e strnrns stmek the enti1e nesses said what appeaied to be a Nolan. nardino, Ri versidc and Orange Lower Peninsula except for most tornado lifted a house off its founda .. r\ person was trying to re counties. People in those ar counties along the Lake Michigan tion and tossed it several feet into ru1 move vegetation around his eas were urged to avoid un shrneline, Koehler said. alley. Timothy Petty said he was in a house and hit a rock. causing a necessary outdoor activities. WDIV-TV ofDetroitm1dWXYZ pw-ked cw· nem- the house when he spark that ignited the brush,'' Two residents were treated TV of Southfield repo1ted that toma saw a tornado come out of the west, she said. for panic attacks,and a By does we1e believed to have touched lift up the house, drnp it clown and Elsewhere in Southern Cali stander suffered a heart attack. down in n·ailer pru"ks in Oakland and then skin eastwai·d to topple a tree. A Los Angeles city fire helicopter drops water near a house to protect it from a brush fire Tuesday in the San fornia, firefighters were bat One firefighter ·was treated_ Macomb counties nrnth of Denuit _ Petty said he and another man ran Gabriel Mountains near Azusa, Calif. The fire reportedly charred more than 1,200 acres, injuring two people Sever.ii mobile homes at a trailer tothefallenhouseandhelpedawoman Vanessa Gist hugs her son, Steven Gist, 18, right, as her other son, Sterling, left, stands near a damaged store tling a 155-acre blaze north- for smoke inhalation. and destroying two homes. AP park near Holly, north of Detroit, out of the entrance of what used to be where the two boys have worked after a fast-moving storm passed through the Detroit area Wednesday. AP we1e desnuyed. her basement stairs. its side. In Highland Pru"k, the scene looked "We were in the basement hug Montana No estimates of in juries or damage "I was scared to death. I've been in Jeff Forstersaid he was working at a~ if someone had gone thrnugh the ging the pole and pr,;ying," she we1e immediately available. Detroit for 32 years wid I've never the scrap yai·d when the storm roai·ed ruea with a giant weed whacker. said. "We did hear a roar. It Wayne County Sheriff Robeit seen anything like this," Petty said. through. Scores of trees were slashed in half sounded like a train coming Q&ff tee of tbe Ji ob m:ratning ~artnersbip ~ct overturns·. Ficano told WXYZ that states of Telephone poles were toppled, and "It got totally black out," he said, while others were uprooted. through." emergency. had been declared in the power lines were lying on the ground adding that he could hear the wall of The downed trees crushed houses "I didn't believe my eyes," said :state ban Detroit enclaves of Hamtramck and in the neighborhocxl. the businesscrumbling down. "It was and cms,uprooted cement sidewalk resident Jerry Green as he chopped ®ffice of tbe ~otlernor Highland Park, where numerous A brick wall of a scrapyru·d busi like a bunch of glass breaking." blocks wid made roads impassable. a tree blocking a street. "It re buildings were damaged and some ness was lying in the sneet and a Forster said he saw the semi-nuck Resident Beverly Daniel said minds me of someplace else. like on·gay sex- were desn·oyed. Along Interstate 75 trnctor trailer parked in the ruea was lifted in the air, spun around and she didn't sec anything when the where tornadoes touch down. You in Hamu·amck the water level rose as lifted and thrown about 20 feet onto tossed across the street. storm hit. neverthink it will h:1ppen to you.'' By Bob Anez MESSAGE OF APPRECIATION HELENA, Mont. (AP) - The Montana Supreme Court threw Of 1/ic u•nrl1l's wri .19 air/ini•s. On behalf of the Governor's JTPA Office and the Trainees. 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NOGIS hw, not stopped the disease from be JTPA Executive Director coming the sixth-leadinf! cause of "Ct;;..~m - death mnong middle-aged Mont:m ---u=a--~--i,i;- ;ms, the court said. ,1· ...... -~ . ' ______FRmA Y, JULY 4. 1997 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-67 66-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY-JULY 4. 1997 r ' Weapons crackdown expands the world's leading source of tech requirecxpott I icenses for high-speed By Laura Myers machinesandsupercomputers. lliose WASHING TON (AP) - The nology for weapons of mm;s destmc 011 the list rn·e suspected of mirit;uy Commerce Oepaitment is expand tion, including nuclem· missile tech REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS research and development, ing its export crackdown beyond nology and chemical weapon sys- The Office of the Public Auditor is soliciting proposals for a financial audit of The first to be listed was Ben nuclear weapons technology to ma terns. The Marianas Public Land Trust (MPLT) for the two fiscal years ending Tiie unclassified report to Con Gurion University in Israel in Febru September 30, 1997 and 1998. Proposals shall be submitted to the Public terials for making chemical weapons rny. Auditor, P.O. Box 1399, Saipan, MP 96950 no later than August 1, 1997. The and missiles. · gress cites China and, to a lesser On Monday, the list published in audit shall be performed in compliance with Government Auditing Standards William Reinsch, undersecretary ~xtent, Russia as spreading chemical, (1994 Revision) and other applicable generally accepted auditing standards. A the Federal Register was expanded of commerce for exports, said biological and nuclem· technology. separate audit is to be performed and auditor's report rendered thereon for by another 13 foreign groups, includ Wednesday the move is aimed at While the State Depaitment re each year. ing some in India, Pakistan, China, monitoring foreign entities - from '{iews mid issues expo1t license for all Russia and Israel. Proposals must at least have the following information: private firms to universities - en military goods, the Commerce De "Publishing this list pul, export gaged in military resemch and devel pmtment conn'Ols "dual use" Ame1i Title Page: ers on notice that any products sold to a. Request tor proposal subject opment of weapons that could fall c:m-made materials that have both tliese end users may present prob b. Name of your company into the wrong hands in China. Iran, civilim1 w1d military applications. a . ]em ,md will 1equire a license from c. Local address and telephone number Libya. Russia and elsewhere. High-performance computers d. Name of contact person and submission dale the Bureau of Export Administra- ''The Commerce Department has have received the most attention re tion," Reinsch said in releasing the Transmittal Letter: \1·wited to do this for a long time," cently because they can be used in a. Briefly stale your understanding of the audit work to be performed. Reinsch said in mi interview. "So fai·, nuclear weapons research. Dual-use list. Include an affirmative statement to perform the work within the time Reinsch said he expected the watch the focus In, been on entities that goodsalsocmi include telecommuni period specified. list to continue growing amid the b. State a comprehensive fee for each year and payment terms. engage in nucbu· rese,udi, but there cations, h,crs, uranium mid va1ious crackdown on weapons proliferation c. Date on which the draft and final rel)orts for each year will be delivered to ,ue other things out there that need to chemicals. as he adds foreign entities engaged in MPLT. l'<: contrnllcd- chemicals and mis Since the beginning of the year, rese,ud1 and development of chemi siles." the Commerce Depmtment Im, put Your Company's Profile: cal weapons ,md missile technology. a. Provide a brief description of your company which includes your personnel's His comments came as· the CIA on a watch list for Amerinm export "lfyou wanttosell tliemanything, educational background and experience, number of staff, level of staff issued areport tliat identifiesChina,L, ers at least 15 foreign entities that now (partners, managers, supervisors. etc.), and a listing of clients. not just computers, you 'JI need to b. The description must also include an affirmative statement that at least all come to us anJ get a license," he said the partners are certified public accounts. c. Name and profile of staff members to be assigned to the audit. should of American exporters. your company be awarded. Reinsch cautioned tliat tlie Com mer-ce Depanment would be cmdul Awarded will be based on the following factors: price, technical competence. about compiling the lists, in pmt be prior experience, and ability to meet the deadline. cause U.S. authorities caii't realisti The contract for \his audit will be awarded not later than August 31, 1997. The cally identify all foreign entities en final report shall be completed and delivered not later than December 1, 1997 gaged in militaiy reseaidi and devel- . and 1998 for fiscal year 1997 and 1998. respectively. opment or all American companies All in'quiries may be directed to Mr. Bruce M. MacMillan, MPLT Executive making dual-use materials. Director, at telephone no. 322-4401. Audit repor'.s from prior years are The Clinton administration is in available at MPLT's office located at the Division of Public Lands office on vestigating the sale of a Sun Capitol Hill Microsystems high-performance OPA and MPLT reserve the right to reject any proposal in the interest of the computer to a Hong Kong company CNMI Government. that allegedly diverted it to a militaiy facility in China. ls/Juan S. Torres Chairman Earlier this month, Digital Cre ations Corp. of Closter, N.J ., w,L, fined a$800,000criminal penalty for As other contestants climb out of the mud pit, Jake Kojac, 3, was given violating export mies in 1994 by ille a helping hand over the wires in the mud pit by his dad, Mark Kojac gallysellingaDECcomputertoChina during the 1OK mud run at Camp Pendleton, Calif. AP without the proper license. The Proposal due date is has been changed to 3:00 p.m., local MANY DISTINGUISHED time on July 21, 1997. 1. There have been numerous requests for the extension on the proposal time. It has been decided to extend the proposal due date to 3:00 p.m., local time on July 21, 1997. INVITATION FOR BIDS 2. This addendum has the following attachments: Minutes from the 6/17, 18/97 Pre-Proposal Meeting, Attendance Sheet COMMONWEALTH UTILITIES CORPORATION Package presented to participants at the 6/17, 18/97 pre-proposal meeting (Includes RFP, Scope-of-Work, Maps, CUC-IFB-97-0030. Generation Data, kW Demand Data, Projected kW Demand Data and Graphs, 11x17 Drawing of Site Plant, Transmis The Office of the Executive Director, Commonwealth Utilities Corporation is soliciting sealed bids for the construction sion Route Drawing, One-Line of Power Plant Substation, of ISLEY/SAN VICENTE/OLD HOSPITAL WATERLINE PROJECT, Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana One-Line of Distribution Substation, Island Distribution Islands. The sealed bids shall be identified on the outside of the envelope by the :nvitation for bids number CUC System, One-Line of Island Distribution System) IFB97-0030. Bids in duplicate will be accepted at the Office of the Acting Chief, Procurement & Supply, CUC, at Lower Questions/Answer Sheet (For questions received after the GUESTS YOU'LL FIND Base, Saipan until 2:00 p.m., local time on August 1, 1997 at which time and place will be publicly opened and read Meeting) Part of the Master Plan aloud. Section Ill A bid guarantee of 15 percent of the total bid price must accompany the bids. The security may be in cash certified Section V Generation Section check, cashier's check, or other form acceptable to the CNMI Government made payable to the Commonwealth Transmission Section Utilities Corporation. Copy of Fuel Contract Copy of Environmental Air Quality Report The bidder is funded by a grant from the Department of Interior (DOI), Office of Insular Affairs (QIA) at 73.3% of the EPA Water Quality Standard Specifications cost and 26.7% matching fund from the CNMI Government. The award of this project is contingent upon receipt of Water Master Pian Summary approval by OJA, DOI. for himself. But his namesake flies with us, on Power Plant 1 Soils Report Financial & Customer Data Report The project consists: in genera!, of th_e installation o.f approximately 3.0 miles of underground PVC water distribution every trip. And our first class passengers Diskettes with Power Plant Site Plan and Transmission Rout Imes ranging from 8-inch to 14-inch diameter, including appurtenant valves, fittings, hydrants, air relief valves, service ing Drawing in AutoCad Release 12 laterals, meters, and testing. · ON KOREAN AIR certainly enjoy !he company. Dom Perignon 3. All questions on this project must be in writing and either faxed, hand delivered or mailed to Michael W. Randall, P.E., Technical A non-refundable payment of $250.00 is required for each set of Plans, Specifications, and Proposal Forms, available champagne is just one more pleasant surprise you'll Service Manager for consideration. Fax Number 670-322-4323. on or after July 7, 1997 at Water D1v1s1on Office, CUC, Sa1pan. A pre-bid conference for this project is scheduled at 4. The last day CUC will accept questions on this project will be July 9:30 a.m .. , local time, July 14, 1997, at the CUC Conference Room, Saipan. A project site visit is scheduled following Legend has it that the inventor of champagne was a venerable old monk by the find on Korean Air, and perhaps, one more reason 11, 1997. Any question dated at CUC's office after this date will the pre-bid meeting. not be addressed. name of Dom Perignon. Alas the good Dom never experienced Korean Air service you should fly with us. 5. CUC will respond to all questions in w.riting by no later than July 14, 1997. The questions and answers will be Faxed to all parties Attention is called to the Labor Standard Provisions for Wage Rate Determination of the CNMI Classification and that have requested the Scope of Work package. All bidders should Salar.Y. Structure Plans and that_payment of not less than the minimum salaries and wages as set forth in the provide a fax number and phone number at the fax location so Spec1f1cat1ons must be paid on this pro1ect. that answers to questions can be faxed and confirmed by CUC to insure that all bidders receive a copy of questions and answers CUC reserves the right to reject any or all bids and waive any imperfection in the bid proposal in the interest of the no later than July 14, 1997. government. ls/Timothy P. Villagomez All inquiries should be directed to Ernesto L. Villarin at telephone number (670) 322-9383 Executive Director MRE'ANAIR BEYOND YOUR IMAGINATION Commonwealth Utilities Car oraton ' ' ,• 0 •••• ~ 0 • •M • •' ,, ,• ,, ·' \ ' l,, 1,, I. I Ji'.'.'.,:,• r • •'•••II• ••• '' '' < FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1991-MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND YIEWS-69 68-\I.\RL\:\..\S \',\RIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY-JULY 4. 1997 ______------~- Congressman gets L.A. ordinance targets beggars LOS ANGELES (AP)-Pan ordinance adopted Wednesday tion, thus strengthening and Violators could face a $50 Critics have said the ordi handlers who harass passersby by the City Council. clarifying current laws. fine for the first offense and a nance duplicates existing 'double donation' or beg near automated teller The council voted 8-4 to The measure now goes to $500 fine and six months in laws, while others have called machines or public transpor wrap up all existing panhan Mayor Richard Riordan, who jail for repeat offenses. The it unconstitutional. The By David Pace law. Rep. Bob Riley, R-Ala., last yem· tation stops could be slapped dling laws into one package is expected to sign.it. It will ordinance was tentatively ap American Civil Liberties WASHINGTON (AP)-A Geor Lockwood said she was not aware donated $1,0CXJ to four different po with a misdemeanor under an and add more limits on loca- become law 30 days after that. proved by an identical 8-4 vote Union said it's too broad and gia businessman who ha Baltimore police officer Vincent J. Adolfo's brother Michael Adolfo, left, and sister Janet Adolfo Grossnickle, CNMI Lottery's fun right, embrace with family members following official word of Flint Gregory Hunt's execution Wednesday. FIRST ANNIVERSARY ROSARY Hunt died by lethal injection for the murder of Vincent Adolfo. AP games like Island Keno, Oz Lotto, or Lotto! \\'c. 1/wfi1111ily 0/1/ie /ale Army investigator can't confirm JACOBA Avuvu ~ ti&. to- uwite- r,«lt, ~ ad~ to key elements in McKinney case SONGSONG j-out, ((4, iH, (U(/1, ~ iH, ~ de {i-'t4t ~ By Donald M. Rothberg But when they showed them to Roy, fused to testify at the hc:uing, which of Roi/I c,.1, r,«lt, ~ ~ e. 7~. O«tt ftatt&tU WASHINGTON(AP)-AnA1my she said none of them was the one she wa~ called to detcnnine if whether ~?.7~.~e.A~ investigator said We By Robert Burns It advises the government on plies to even the smallest small nuclear explosion in network of 170 seismic sta WASHING TON (AP) - To technical matters. nuclear explosion, the verifi some cases "would noi be dis tions and other fixed stations i Nuke test held in Nevada be confident others are com The test ban treaty, which cation cha,Ilenge is much tinguishable" from a small to monitor underwater acous I. ' plying with a new ban on prohibits all nuclear explo greater than was faced with earthquak,e, the report said. tics and airborne radionuclides The Energy Deprutmentcontends By ROBERT MACY said U.S. Energy Department spokes The experiment used 160 pounds and scientiw; have expressed con nuclear testing the United sions, has been signed by 142 the 197 4 Threshold Test Ban "Research will be essential" and sound waves. LASVEGAS(AP)-Anexpe1imcnt m,m Derek Scammell. ..The scien (72 kilograms) of chemical explo cerns over how tlie aging process the tests rue consistent witli tlie treaty States must invest more in re countries.·The. United States Treaty, for example, which for solving that problem, it The United States is setting because no nuclear fission chain re toevaluatc the safety ,md rdiabil ity of tisL~ an~ very happy. 1l1e progrnm sives to bcmbar Nightly Raffle - Last chance to win 1 Round/Trip ticket to Japan, donated by North~est Airlines PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY CNMI GOVERNMENT PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE ...... 09:30 pm - 09:340 pm ...... AMP carnival stage REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN Entertainment...... 09:45 pm - 12:00 midnight...... KAPAZ & Others RFP NO. RFP97-0145 MARIANA ISLANDS FOR: TO MANAGE A PUBLIC COMPUTER CENTER AND TO ASSIST WITH OTHER LIBRARY COMPUTERS In the matter of the adoption of OPENING DATE: JULY 18, 1997 TIME: 2:00 P.M. Danyal Joseph McPhetres Tudela A Minor, ' GOVERNOR FROILAN C. TENORIO AND LT. GOVERNOR JESUS C BORJA THROUGH By James Reyes Santos, THE DIVISION OF PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY, ARE SOLICITING co'MPETITIVE Petitioner. PROPOSALS TO QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS OR FIRMS TO MANAGE A Pt;BLIC COM ADOPTION CASE NO. 97-0044E Public Tours of the USS Thatch shuttle service schedule SPONSORS OF FIREWORKS PUTER CENTER AND TO ASSIST WITH OTHER LIBRARY COMPUTERS. INTER· Daily schedule July 4-6, 1997 ESTED INDIVIDUALS OR FIRMS MAY PICK UP PROPOSAL FORMS AND SPECIFICA NOTICE OF HEARING TIONS ATTHE OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR, PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY, LOWER MTC BASE, SAIPAN, DURING WORKING HOURS (7:30 A.M. TO 4:30 P.M.). PickUp Drop off Time NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that 60 pax max PCI COMMUNICATIONS IS/EDWARD B. PALACIOS a verified petition was filed in the GST MICRONESIA DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF PROCUREMENT & SUPPLY above-en!itled for the adoplion of 01 :OOpm pier/return 01:10 pm Danya! Joseph McPhe.tres Tudela, a Smilely Cove marina minor child, by the petitioner, James The 1997 Liberation Day Committee extends gratitude to the sponsors of Reyes Santos, and it has been set Smiley Cove marina 02:00pm pier/return 02:10 pm this year's fireworks. The Committee also extends un dangkulo na si PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY CNMI GOVERNMENT for a hearing in the Superior Court on the 25th day of September, 1997 at Yu'us maase to all the companies and individuals whose generosity and i 9:00 a.m. pier/return 03:10 pm REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL Smiley Cove marina 03:00pm untiring dedication have contributed to the success of this year's Libera RFP NO. RFP97-0144 . Any perso~. who has any objec tion Day festivity. From the nightly raffle prizes to the daily efforts of many FOR: JANITORIAL AND LAWN SERVICES tion to this pet1t1on may file such ob OPENING DATE: JULY 11, 1997 TIME: 2:00 P.M. jections with the Commonwealth Su volunteers, the Liberation Day Festival is a true sign of a community perior Court at any time before the The public is advised to exercise caution when climbing on board the USS GOVERNOR FROILAN C. TENORIO AND LT. GOVERNOR JESUS C. BORJA, hearing or may appear at the time set activity that brings all people together from all walks of life and united for THROUGH THE DIVISION OF PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY, ARE SOLICITING Thatch. Parents and guardians are asked to ensure young children are for hearing lo presenl such objection a common goal. We hope you have and will continue to enjoy the Whether You're COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS TO QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS OR FIRMS FOR JANI or interest in this matter. supervised at all times. The pick up and drop off point is at Smiley Cove festivities. TORIAL & LAWN SERVICES. INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS OR FIRMS MAY PICK Dated this 2nd day of July, 1997. Marina and Charlie Dock pier. This schedule is subject to change when Buying Or Selling. UP PROPOSAL FORMS AND SPECIFICATIONS AT THE OFFICE OF THE DIREC TOR, PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY, LOWER BASE; SAIPAN, DURING WORK JOVITA C. CASTRO needed. ING HOURS (7:30 A.M. TO 4:30 P.M.). Clerk of Court IS/EDWARD B. PALACIOS . is/Deputy Clerk of Court DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF PROCUREMENT & SUPl?LY FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1997 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-St···-·---- .• EEK&MEEK® 80-MARIANAS VARI!:lTY NEWS AND VIEWS-FRIDAY- JULY 4, 1997 by Howie Schneider I CROSSWORD PUZZLER ACROSS 33 Acidly 35 Dollar bills 1 Claw 37 Small rugs 6 Louisiana 38 Western native hemisphere 11 Make assn. helpless 40 Sups 01 ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT-Sal (hyph. wd.J 42 Hail! 01 ADMINISTRATIVEASSISTANT-Sal 01 SALES CLERK-Salary:$3.05 per ary: $850.00-1,200.00 per monlh 13 Acquiesce 43 -Vance 01 TOUR GUIDE-Salary: S1,000.00- 14 Clooney 45 - hour ary:S3.05 per hour Contact: RAFAEL M. & MERCED V. Employment Wanted 1, 700.00 per month 01 VIDEO RENTAL CLERK-Sal series enforcement Contact: R.S.M. CORPORATION dba REYES dba M.V. Reyes Catering Tel. 46 "- Deum" 01 AUTOBODY REPAIR-Salary: S4.00- ary:S3.05 per hour 15 A Wright Manpower Services Tel. 235-0790(7/ 256-0397 (7 /18)F66699 brother 47 Proteclive 6.00 per hour Contact: HANA MARIANAS CORPO 11)F230021 17 Symbol for covering 01 ASSISTANT MANAGER-Salary: RATION dba Flamingo Tel. 234-7129(71 ~6- (2. . • -·------01 ASST. MANAGER, MAINTENANCE tanlalum 49 As far as $1 ,000.00-1,400.00 per month 4)F229803 01 ELECTRONIC TECHNICIAN-Sal Salary: S5.75-6.92 per hour ·1a Depot (abbr.) 50 Handles 01 AUTO BODY REPAIR (FENDER) 20 Novelist 52 Assuage Salary: $4.00-4.65 per hour ary:S675.00 per month 01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary: S3.05-4.20 Contact: LEE P. GANACIAS dba 01 COMMERCIAL CLEANER-Sal Garfield@ by Jim Davis Joyce Carol 54 - nous 01 MARINE SPORTS INSTRUCTOR per hour ary:S3.05 per hour 55 Musical Radiocom Saipan Tel. 234-2263(71 Contact: SAIPAN HOTEL CORP. dba Salary: S1,000.00-2,000.00 per month Contact: BRIAN P. REYES BPR PRO 2 t Lubricate study Contact: PACIFIC DEVELOPMENT, 11)F230022 Hafadai Beach Hotel Tel. 234-6495(71 CATS ARE CR£ATORE.5 OF 22 Every -·------FESSIONAL SERVICE dba Apartment NATURE. WE 00 THINGS 24 - Peeples DOWN 2-14 © 1997 United Feature Syndicate INC. Tel. 322-8876(7/11 )F230002 Rental Tel. 235-9909(7/4)F229808 18)F66700 01 ASSISTANT CHEF-Salary: Sl ,00.00- ·------·--··--·----·--- -- 03 COOK-Salary: S3.05 per hour BASED ENTIRE.LY ON ... OH •.• 25 She's always remembered 1 The ones 4 Ear (comb 7 Soul (Fr.) 1,800.00 per month 01 COOK-Salary: S3.05-4.00 per hour Contact: FAR OCEAN CORPORATION 01 CIVIL ENGINEER-Salary: S1 ,000.00- Contact: MICRO PACIFIC DEVELOP Tel. 233-7654(7/11)F230014 01 ELECTRICIAN-Salary:$1,070.00 per 26 Mr. Connery here tormJ 8 Prowse 1D Contact: PACIFIC RESORT SERVICE, 1,500.00 per month 28 Layers 2 Chiet arteries 5 Aclor Roben 9 Last syllable month MENT, INC. dba Saipan Grand Hotel 02 MECHANICAL ENGINEER-Salary: 3 She was Sue De- of word 'INC. dba E'Sy Kitchen Tel. 235-3550(71 Contact: J.C.A., INC. dba McDonald's 30 Tehran Tel. 234-6601 Ex\. 112 Mr. Domingo C. 01 OPERATOR, COMPUTER-Salary: currency Ellen Ewing 6 Mountain 10 Antelope 11 )F230003 of Saipan Tel. 235-8761 (7/4)F66460 $1,000-1,500.00 per month Cruz(7/11 )F66583 S3.05 per hour Contact: BLACK MICRO CORPORA 32 - milk (inits.) passes 12 Novelist 01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary: $3.50 per Hunter ------14 PACKER-Salary: $2.90-3.05 per TION Tel. 234-6800(?/18)F66705 02 OFFSET PRESS OPERATOR-Sal 01 STORE SUPERVISOR-Salary:$3.05 13 Spikes hour hour ary: $3.05 per hour Contact: UNIVERSAL (U.S.) DEV. INC. per hour 16 "How sweet 05 MARKER-Salary: $2.90-3.05 per 01 ACCOUNTANT-Salary: $850.00- --!'' Contact: R & M ENTERPRISES, INC. dba Graphic Art, Night Club Tel. 235- Contact: RAINBOW TRADING COR hour PORATION dba Rainbow Store Tel. 1,300.00 per month 19 Needle Tel. 322-3043(7/11 )F230016 13 TRIMMER-Salary: $2.90-3.05 per 4492(6/27)F229706 01 FIELD SERVICE ENGINEER-Salary: shaped 233-6838(7/4)F229817 hour $650.00-700.00 per month 21 Hot cereal 02 CASHIER-Salary: 3.05 per hour 01 MANAGER-Salary: $3.50-5.00 per 01 (AREA DEVELOPMENT) SUPERVI 23 Filaments 26 PRESSER-Salary: $2.90-3.05 per 01 SUPERVISOR (SALES}-Sal Contact: PLAZA CORPORATION dba hour SOR-Salary: $4.00-4.50 per hour 25 Pine Tree hour ary:S3.05 per hour PEANUTS® State Highway Market Tel. 233-0386(7/ 18 CUTTER-Salary: S2.90-3.05 per Contact: ANGELITA M. BUNIAG dba Contact: ISLAND BUSINESS SYSTEM 11)F66556 Alanar's Enterprises Tel. 234-0695(6/ Contact: LIM'S CORPORATION Tel. 27 - King Cote hour & SUPPLY (CNMI) CORP. Tel. 234- 1 29 Movie co. 27)F229707 233-1828(7/4}F229818 I f.lEAR '{OU VE . Wl-lEN '{OU 1-\AVE A DOG,'{OU SHOULD 07 ASSEMBLER-Salary: $2.90-3.05 per 8002(7/18}F66709 EXCEPT FOR THOSE inits. 01 SALES SUPERVISOR-Salary: S3.05 DECIDED NOf TO GO STA'{ 1-lOME, AND MAKE '{OUR DOG hour 01 GENERAL MANAGER-Sal- OBVIOUSL'1' NECE5SAR'1' 31 - ot London per hour 173 SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR 01 MASON-Salary: S2.90 per hour 02 STORE SUPERVISOR-Salary: TO SUMMER CAMP HAPP'1' .. THAT'S WHAT '{OU SHOULD 33 Bar Contact: ALTO SAIPAN INTERNA Contact: TAC INTERNATIONAL ary:S3,200.00-3,240.00 per month SHORT TRIPS IN TO 34 Three feet Salary: $2.90-3.05 per hour Contact: MEITETSU SHOPPING CEN $4 .50 per hour AFTER ALL .. DO .. '{OU Sf.lOULD STM !-\OME .. TIONAL, CORP. dba Alto Market Tel. 07 BUTTONHOLE MACHINE OPERA CONST. INC. Tel. 234-1629(61 Contact: WINCHELL'S INC. dba 8U'{ DOG FOOD .. 36 Declared TER, INC. dba Meitetsu Mart/Penny's 37 Having dull 235-1332(7/11 )F66558 27)F66290 Winchell's Donut House Tel. 234- TOR-Salary: $2.90-3.05 per hour Meitetsu (Rota) Tel. 234-6230(71 tinish 13 INSPECTOR (QUALITY CONTROL 5566(7/18)F229921 39 Set cf 01 OPERATION MANAGER, HARD 01 COMMUNICATIONS TECHNICIAN 4)F229816 . CHECKER)-Satary: $2.90-3.05 per hour ------~------garments WARE-Salary: S4.50 per hour 02 OVERHAULER-Salary: $2.90-3.05 (Cellular/Paging)-Salany:S1 ,667 .00 per 01 STOCK CLERK-Salary: S3.05-3.25 41 Promise 01 PLUMBER-Salary:$3.20 per hour Contact: YCO CORPORATION dba month earnestly per hour 01 WAREHOUSEMAN-Salary:$2.90 per hour YCO Servistar Hardware/Liberty Plaza 03 COOK-Salary: S2.90-3.05 per hour Quali1ied individual must have the fol Contact: VIP CORPORATION dba VIP 43 Choice food & YCO Cpnstruction Tel. 235-6604(71 per hour Contact: EXPRESS MANUFACTUR lowing qualifications: Shopping Center Tel. 235-9611 (71 44 Large knife 06 CARPENTER-Salary:$2.90-3.00 per 47 Golf term 11)F66560 ING INC. Tel. 233-6741(7/11)F230004 ·A degree in Electrital Engineering ma 18)F229922 jor in Electronics and Communications; hour 48 UK time 51 Film alien 02 CARPENTER-Salary: S3.05 per hour •One year experience as a Switch En 09 MASON-Salary:$2.90 per hour 01 GENERAL MANAGER-Salary: 01 WAITRESS (NIC)-Salary: S3.05 per STELLA WILD ER 53 Ustinov ID 02 H.E. MECHANIC-Salary: S3.05 per gineer, 03 STEEL WORKER, REINFORCING S5.00-7.00 per hour Salany:$2.90-3.20 per hour hour hour •Knowledge in maintaining Celcore Contact: WESTERN PACIFIC ENTER Contact: MYUNG SUNG CORPORA 01 CIVIL ENGINEER-Salary:$900.00 ™ -----;b--y-:D:::--:i~ck:--=R-o-ge_r_s Contact: JG SABLAN ROCK QUARRY TION dba International Business Cen Switch, ATG Base Station and Digital PRISES, INC. dba Kimchi Cabana Night ltidSPC!)t per month INC. Tel. 234-3219(7/11)F66572 ter Tel. 235-5555(7i11 )1"230007 Microwave Radio; Club & Rest. Tel. 234-6622(7/ YOUR BIRTHDAY •Mastery in Unix-QNX base program, 01 CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISOR 18)F229923 01 ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT-Sal Unix SCO Software and full knowledge Salary:$3.40 per hour 02 MASON-Salary: $3.00-3.10 per hour 01 CONSTRUCTION HELPER-Sal THE~ ary: S650.00-900.00 per month 01 CARPENTER-Salary: S3.00-3.30 per in maintaining Paging Switch; 10 CUTTER (MACHINE)-Salary: S3.05 Contact: JG SABLAN WATER & ICE Contact: GLENN R. PERSINGER (Cell ary:$2.90 per hour YOU DON'T KNOW 1/,/l-{AT ro hOur Contact: NORTH PACIFIC BUILDERS, per hour INC. Tel. 322-5155(7/11)F66573 Contact: ROCK CONSTRUCTION CO. 483-1111} SAIPAN CELLULAR & PAG 01 COOK-Salary: S3.05 per hour Stella Wildrtr To see what is in store for you nowhere. G'UY 040 FOR FATI-IER's Qd ::? INC. Tel. 235-7171 (7/4)F229815 By INC. Tel. 234-6163(7/11)F230006 ING Tel. 322-1111; Tel. 235-7243(7/ 50 SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR tomorrow, find your birthday and CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. I I-IA.VE 7l-lE PERFECT 6/FT~ 01 CIVIL ENGINEER-Salary: ------~----- 4JF66436 Salary: $3.05 per hour . Bom today, you are a forward read the corresponding para 19) - You can derive a great deal A MAN W/...10 /.IA5 EVERYTI-IING. S1 ,000.00-1,700.00 per month 01 COOK-Salary: $3.05 per hour 01 TRAVEL COUNSELOR-Salary: 10 P.RESSER (MACHINE)-Salary: thmking, eager and anxious indi graph. 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Tel. 235-2421 (7/18)F229933 Tel. 288-9448(7/18)F229935 VICES, SPN Tel. 322-6000 229725 FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1997 -MARIANAS VARIETY NEWS AND VIEWS-83 At Athletissima meet Green shows power, ajicek's rei ends By JOE HUBAY-DIES and two tight three-setters in WIMBLEDON, England (AP) Henman frustrates defending Wimbledon champ the first and third rounds. Devers outshine Jones -Just when Richard Krajicek was His return of serve, which car Krajicek, 25, took months to era!, as a champion," Krajicek could muster only a 12-12 learning to enjoy his reign as ried him last year along with his coached Greene since last Septem I0.89 seconds. get over hi's mixed emotions_ the said. "Maybe the French Open record. The slide confused By CLARE NULLIS Devers has been plagued by injury Wimbledon champion, it came to happiness, the surprise, the relief, was a little disappointment. I won Krajicek, and he didn't quite powerful service game, was. LAUSA.i~ Swit?,Crland (AP) · ber. "If the weather had been good, an·end. .weak against Henman. He broke there would have been a world 1ecord and pulled out of the U.S. champio~ the nagging.feeling that he should three ti ties. After I got over the come to grips with it until this Havina stunned the Ameiican sp1int ships. Itisnotyetclearwhethershew1ll Krajicek didn 'tquite know what have won more majors at that shock of winning the title the ye;i.r. Henman only once. , woril Mauiice Greene has fomly iii Lausarme," he, said. "When he (G1eene) first came to be invited to Athens on a wild .am! to make of his triumph a year ago. stage in his career.. firs! six months, I really en He rebounded this spring, The match was halted because left his mark on international track ticket It was the first time Devers has "I didn't know how much pres. On Wednesday, when·he fell to joyed it more and more." winning in his native Rotterdam ofdarkness Tuesday evening with and field by blazing ahead in an all me, he said he wanted to be the best in the world," he 1ecalled. "And now met Jones, hailed as one of the b1ight sure I had from not winning a Britain's Tim Henman in the Ever since winning his first and in Tokyo, but then hit an Henman leading two sets to one. star I 00-meter race. est up-and-coming talents, this year. Grand Slam," Krajicek said be fourth round, 7-6 (9-7), 6-7 (7-9), Grand Slam title here last year, other cold streak that included a When they resumed 17 hours later, The 22-year-old newcomer side he's letting things happen. He's not "It'll work out," Devers beamed, for~ starting the· tournament this 7-6 (7-5), 6-4, Krajicek reflected Krajicek has been trying to get third-round loss at the French Henman broke Krajicek at love in lined tl1e likes of world record holder afraid at all." flashing her trademark long finger year. "When I won Wimbledon, on what the year has been like. back to the form that let him Open. the fourth game of the fourth set, and Olympic gold medalist Donovan But Bailey, of Canada, made it nails to the cameras. "I just hope I stay the biggest surprise was how re "I have conductec:1 myself well breeze though to the final, drop He came into Wimbledon drilling four sharp returns that the Bailey ,md Namibian veteran Frankie clear he won't relinquish his role as fit for tl1e rest of the season." lieved I felt." on the court, and I think, in. gen- ping only one set before beating seeded fourth and had a little Dutchman volleyed long or into Fredeiicks in a winning timcof9.90 the world's fastest man without a Victory was especially sweet for MaliV.ai Washington in straight trouble getting through to his the net. Henman then held serve seconds at the Athletissima track meet fi ohL He finished tl1ird Wednesday in 9 B7, just behind Fredericks. U.S. veterdll and 400-meter record sets to win. During the final match against Henman, playing the rest of the way, closing out the Wednesday. holderButchReynolds.Havingtrailed "I feel I can still run faster," de "I ran a bad race technically but I Holyfield bit ex-fighter six months oflast year, Krajicek a five-setter in the second round match with a put-away volley. Maurice Green of USA Jubilates after winning the 100 meters event know I could have won," said Bailey. miserably in the U.S.championships, during the Athletissima in Lausanne, Switzerland. AP clared the American after his daz Reynolds cruised through to victory zling performance in a steady down 'The first half of the race was good but the last 40 meters were pathetic." in 44.08 seconds. during amateur match pour. His time equaled his own per Reynolds took advantage of the • Sportsbits. "I'm not worried about this race angry." After Holyfield got .Dodgers-Angels in 'basebrawl' oe ... sonal best set last month at the Ameri absence of 200-meterand 400-meter 'J ' Continued from page 84 can championships when he became because there were very bad condi up, composed himself and with Continued from page 84 tions," said Bailey. "Just look out for Olympicchampion MichaelJohnson, the third fastest American in history. who is back in the United States stood another round of punches, on the Japan PGA Tour, is also a holding a 2 man team volleyball He let it be known that his sights me next month in Athens." he spit out his mouthpiece and bit TheLausannegalawasdominated trying to regain form after injury .. fifth-yearregularonthe u.. s. tour. He league on July 19th and 20th, are finnly set on next month's World Winters on the shoulder. by American wins. The rain put paid to hopes that Kim ha, yet to win in the United States. 1997. Championships in Athens, which Batten would beat her own world The bite broke the skin and The event will be held at the Victory was sweet for two-time Mizoguchi, whohaswononetour open early August, and on Bailey's record in the 400-meters hurdles. In caused bleeding. Holyfield had a PIC orounds and for more infor- year-old world record of 9.84 sec OlympiccharopionGail Devers, who point taken away and the fight nament, three years ago, had seven "' . edged U.S. championship winner; fact she only managed a poor third in mation please contact Blame onds. continued. birdies and two bogeys. 21-year-old Marion Jones, by one 54.83seconds, behindJamaica 'sDeon Rocrers or Andrew Casci at 234- 'The world record is very soft," "It's hard to spit a mouthpiece At 67 were defending champion "' hundredth of a second. She clocked Hemmmings, who clocked 43.77. Todd Hamilton of the United States, 7976. commented John Smith, who has out. But he was desperate. He was Yoshi1\ori Mizumaki, Katsunari trying to buy time. Evander is no Takahashi and Hirofurni Miyase, E>.posestheh-pawntoattack.. What computer would find it; ditto if there angel," Winters said. . isa way to stop the g-pawn or to force winner of the Sapporo Tokyu Open Hingis. . 64... did the computer see in this position? Last Saturday night, Mike a perpetual check. last month. . Continued from page 84 Continued from page 84 22. hxg5 N6e5 23. Rhel Tyson bit .Holyfield on each ear 47 ... Kb6 48. g6 Kxb5 C:mada's Rick Gibson, Taiwan's face the winner of the second Taking the pawn would only dis Evander Holyfield during their heavyweight title 5th game, New York, 1997 And,ww, theblackkingjoinsinthe Chen Tze-ming and his younger women's semi"final between Jana rupt White' sposition with 23 ... c5 24. fight in Las Vegas. 1. Nt3 mating net being prepared for the brother Chen Tze-chung shared sev N·ovotna and Arantxa Sanchez Nb5Qb6. BOCA' RATON, Florida (AP) - "It can happen to anybody .... A Kasparov repeats his opening of White royal1y. Former heavY.weight Jakey Win fighter is oblivious," Winters said. enth place at 68 with Tsukasa Vicario. Ganze One. He has used the Reti at 23,_cS Watanabe and four other players. It was the fourth time Hingis and DeepB/uemakestheadvanceany- 49.g7Kb4 ters knows how it fee ls to be bit "Like Evander, Tysonjustreact"'lil._,.. other crucial poin!s in his career.for Kasparov was apparently sur 111e four-round event, offers a top Koumikova have met, and the fourth way. ten during a boxing match. badly. I was disgusted, just like I example against Karpov in the last prised by the mpve. Perhaps he be prize of l 2.6 million yen($ l l 0,000). time the Swiss girl has won easily in 24. Nt3 One night, 17 years ago, a was 17 years ago. Tyson showed game oftheir 1986 retum match. lieved he was willlling, but after a straight sets. Hingis won twice in The best spot to retreat. young, up-and-coming Evander poor taste and poor judgment in 1-,clS 2. g3 Bg4 3.Bg2 Nd7 4. h3 good think a draw was agreed. Holyfield bit Winters on the right the heat of the moment." junior competition, and last month at Bxt3 5. Bxf3 c6 6. d3 e6 7. e4 Ne5 8. Z.LRxd1+25.Rxd1Nc426.Qa4 WBA. .. the French Open, she beatKoumikova Rd8! 27.Rel Nb628.Qc2Qd629. Analysis shows why: 50. g8=Q shoulder during their semifinal Winters, an 18-year-old with a Bg2 dxe4 9. Bxe4 Rd] 51. Kb2 Rd2 + with a perpetual. bout in the Georgia Golden Gloves Continued from page 84 6-1,6-3. c4 I 06-11 record, became the first 9. d.xe4 looks better: 9... Q.xdl 10. ff 50. Re2 Rdl + 51. Kb2 c3+ 52. tournament in Atlanta. boxer to knock down Holyfield refen-ing to the governing body of "It's not such a big rivalry," Hingis To fi1rther res'trictthe bad Kt onb6. Kxdl 0-0-011. Ke2fol/owed byf2-f4 Kc2 Rel+ 53. Kd3 Rdl + 54. Kc2 "I dropped him with a left hook during that 1980 bout. boxinn in Nevada, which will hold said. "Until now, I've always been 29._Qg6 30. Qxg6 when White keeps his two bishops Rcl + with a draw. (54 .. .Rd8 is too ' to the body and doubled up to the He beat Holyfield with a three a disciplinary hearing next Tues better, I've always beaten her. She Kasparov seizes his clumce to in arnl more space in the center. risky because of55. Re4.) head in the second round of a round unanimous decision and lost still has some to improve, but she's 9__ Nf6 10. Bg2 Bb4+ flict double pawns on his opponent. day. If50. Rel? Ka3. scheduled three-rounder," Win a split decision in the weight class "Tyson was a guy who had been getting better." A typical computer move--strate 30 ... fxg6 31. b3 Finally, if 50. Nd3+ c.xd3 51. ters told the Fort Lauderdale Sun championship. Holyfield left the world champion before and knew ~ Hi;gis, who won the Australian Sacrifices the f2 pawn, perhaps gically shortsighted. White can now g8=Q Rd/+ and Black would seltle Sentinel on Wednesday. ring that night embarrassed with a about all the disciplines and limita Open in January, is the youngest with the certainty that he cou Id regain exploit the bishop's exposed position for a perpetual. "At that point he was hurt and concussion and bruised ego. tions of the Qamc at the top level - women'sfinalistatWimblcdonsince by building a center with c2-c3 and it, considering Black's not so good Charlotte ··Lottie" Dodd won the title pawn fomwtion. After the ganze, Kasparov admit not a second rate boxer doing it at cl3-d4. ted that 1l ... h5 was not a bad move some out of the way stadium. in 1887 at tl1e age of 15 years, 285 l O.,,Be7 was better. 3I...Nxf2 32. Re6 Kc7 33. Rxg6 days. Gets his pawn back with the better after all. "Tyson knew he was on the world ll.Nd2h5? It was the world champ's final stage, he knew it was being screened It was the first time in the Open era Kasparov, at this point, looked at position to /Joor. thattwo 16-year-oldsmetinthesemi 33 ... Rd7 34.Nh4 chance at the White pieces. to millions, and people seeing his the computer operator and smiled, as Puzzler. Congratulations to finals. Swidenly, White's mi110r pieces . every move. And there he was, if saying "Are you sure?" Micropiint's Ding, CPA's Frank biting Holyfield not once but Playing in chilly and cloudy condi An aggressive move but out of have come alive. tions, neither player was at the top of 34...Nc835.Bd5Nd636.Re6Nb5! Rosario, and Joseph C. Gregorio for twice." place in this position. The simple cracking ourpuzzle:.1. Ke2 fl =Q+ 2. Read claimed Tyson saw defeat her game. Koumikova, in particular, 37. cxbS RxclS 11 ... 0-0 was better. Ke3. Or, I. Ke2 fi=N 2. Rf2+. ahead and took the soft option. appared to be bothered by a sore left Black has broken the bind in the 12. Qe2 Qc7 13. c3 Be7 14. d4 For this week try this: "He realized early on that he was hip. She repeatedly did stretching and Ng615.h4 center, but he' I! wse the g-pawn. probably going to lose, and it looks bending exercises between point~. White now has a small positional 38. Rg6 Rd7 39. Nt3 Ne4 40. like he chose an easy way out. "I was a little bit tired and I felt very plus. Nxg7Rdl+ "If the referee gives you a serious sore on my left hip," Koumikova 15 ... e5 16. Nt3· 40 .. Nxg3 loses to 41. Ne6+ Kb6 i i warning once, and you commit the said. "But it had nothing todo with the Better than 16. d.xe5 when after 42. Nf8+, while 41 ... Kc8 42. Rg8+ same fou 1 again, that's what must way I played." 16 .. Nxe5theBlack!aiightretum1·wthe mates next move. surely have been going through his 111ere were service breaks in the· ce,Uer.Kasparoiforcesane.xchangeof 41. Kc2 Rd2+ 42. Kcl mind," added Read, who was also the first six games, with Hingis holding ce,uer fXM'IJS on his own tem1s. The only way to try for a win- supervisoratthetirstTyson-Holyfield for the first time in the seventh. 16 ... exd417.Nxd40-0-018.BgS sacrificing the a-pawn and banking fight last November. Kou mi kova didn't hold serve un Ng4 011 the g-pawn fl!r victory. i / til the fourth game of the second set Blacktriestoeasehisgcunethrough 42 ... Rxa2 and that was the only time she wasn't Mapping. The Kt is safe on g4 since Everyone watching rhe game . . broken. Hingis then won three of the to drive it. out, White would only thought Ka.1parov's g-pmv11 was de RG.Ns. nextfourgamestocloseoutthematch. weaken his kingside. Take 1wte that cisive. However ... Continued from page 84 White to move ,md mate in five. Despite the defeat, the 42nd-rJ11ked all cemer pawns have vanished-a 43. NxhS Nd244. Nf4 Nxb3+ 45. Marpi. Koumikova said she wa~ th1illed just state of affairs that should favor the Kbl Answers should be sentto "64" cl o The Mmimas Vmiety, P.O. Box Tee time is scheduled for 7:20 to get to her first Grnnd Slam semifinal. calculating machine. We"re nmr at the game's cnical 231, Saipan MP 96950, or faxed am. "I had a great tournament," she 19. 0-0-0 juncture. Black's pieces wul c-pmrn Only sixteen slots are open on a said. "I loved it so much. It wa~ Castling k-side is too risky as look 111e11uci11g. tl1rough 234-9271. You can also send your solution first-come first-serve basis. unbelievable. I was dreaming about Black's auack wmt!d get in quickly. 45 ... Rd2 46. Re6 c4 47. Rc3 Ti[Jer Woods signs autographs on the 14th tee during the pro-am competition at the Western Open at theCog Members are asked to be at the this. I'ni definitely going to take a lot 19 ... Rhe8 20. Qc2 Kb8 21. Kbl 71ie position is actually more clan via e-mail; our address is Ht/I Golf & Country Club in Lemont, Ill., Wednesday, July 2, 1997. Tournament play begins Thursday. AP course at least half an hour before with me from tl1is tournament ,md BxgS gerous.fi!r Whitc~ifthere isnwre rhe <.1•m111i.1@,11tcc·nn1i.co111> tee ti me to reserve a spot. this experience." ''I/'•''.'. ''''I' O I I I I I•,, ''.' ''.' ',' '',, --·--:~J, n,11 piay rn .:,uper NtsA all-star games are played Games" in Tokyo next month, here, the _organizers added. organizers said Thursday. The 15 players from I 2 teams Houston's Hakeem Olajuwon will be split into 'Red' and 'Blue' and Clyde Drexler, Seattle's Gary teams, they t~ld a news confer Payton, Miami's Alonzo Mourn ence. Further details are yet to be ing a11d Charlotte's Glen Rice are worked out. among other players in the exhi Ticket prices for the games will bition games Aug. 12 and I 3 at range from 3,000 to 40,000 yen($ the55,000-seat Tokyo Dome, they 26 to$ 350). WBA official suggests Tyson banned for life boxing for life. Martina Hing is punches the air, after defeating Russia's Anna Kournikova in their Women's Singles semi Read's written report to the final on the Centre Court at Wimbledon, Thursday. Hingis, the number one seed, won the match 6-3,6-2 to. WBA's headquarters in Venezu become the youngest women's finalist at Wimbledon since 1887. AP ela was sent the same day as Tyson pleaded against a life ban and apologized for biting chunks from Hingis youngest finalist in 110-years Holyfield's ear. . By STEPHEN WILSON feet record against Koumikova, victory in 62 minutes before a "I expect a severe penalty, and WIMBLEDON;England (AP) winning the battle of the 16-year- muted Centre Court crowd. I am here to say that I will not - Martina Hingis and Anna olds Thursday to become the "For sure, it wasn't one of my fight it," Tyson read from a writ Koumikova might develop a ri- youngest Wimbledon women's best performances at this tour ten statement Tuesday. "I only valry on the lines of Martina finalist in 110 years. nament," Hingis said. "I'm go ask that it is not a penalty for life." NavratilovaandChrisEvert.For In an error-filled match that ing to have improve something But Read, who is also the chair now, though, it's a one-sided failed to live up to expectations, for Saturday." man of the British Boxing Board -~--- oou--tr- ~-- ,,_ •;tt,umikovaheldserveonlyonce The top-seeded Hingis will Mike Tyson of Control, remains disgusted at Hingis maintained her per- and Hingis labored to a 6-3, 6-2 Continued on page 82 the tum of events which degraded LONDON (AP) -Leonard Read, the sport. the WBA supervisor for the Mike "I've not waited for any deci 'Joe' Ozaki, Mizoguchi •Sporlsbiis · Tyson-Evander Holyfield fight in sion from the Nevada State Ath Las Vegas last Saturday, has rec letic Commission," said Read, lead in Philanthropy Saipan Island-Wide Foot ommended Tyson be banned from Confinuea on page 8-2 ball League Registration KITATSURU, Japan (AP) - of the season and 28th overall, THE Youth Football League is Naomichi "Joe" Ozaki shot a 5- sank five birdies ·in a bogey-free informing all interested players, under-par66 Thursday and shared round on the 6,905-yard (6,284- coaches, and managers that there a one-stroke lead with Eiji meter), par-71 Maple Point Golf will be an registration on July 5, '. • Zaldy Dandan Mizoguchi in the opening round Club course. 1997, Saturday at Price Costco of the I 00 million yen($ 874,000) The 41-year-old Ozaki, the from 9:00 a.m. thru I :00 p.m. : How Kasparov lost to 'Deeper Blue' PGA Philanthropy Tournament. youngest of three Ozaki brothers The entrance fee is $35.00, and Ozaki, :i>eeking his first victory Continued on page 82 first time participants are required (Fifth in a series) to provide a copy ofBirth Certifi BUT before we g.o into that, a '97 Inter-Hotel cate or Passports. reminder from the CNMI Chess RGNsJuly For more information please Association: the third round ac Basketball meet contact Norbert P. Diaz at 664- tion of the I 997 Allied Insur- qualifying team standings 1500 01: Joe Palacios at 288-1150. i ance Cup/CNMI Chess Team *** '; championship is on Sunday at tournament Compiled by Blaine Rogers Lite Beer Liberation Day Pinoy Special. for the Variety Softball Tournament THE Refalawasch Golf Associa Team Won Loss . For more information, call tion July qualifying tournament Dai /chi Hotel 3 D The Pacific Trading is inform : tournament director Vic Brana will be held this Saturday, July 5, Hyatt 2 D ing all interested players, coaches, '.. at 234-6010. C.O.P. 2 D at the Marianas Country Club in and managers that there will be a Game of the week. As in Aqua Resort 2 D ,. Continued on page 82 Softball tournament on July 11th i game 4, Kasparov in this game P.I.C. 2 D Marianas Resort 1 1 thru July 13th, I 997. \ opted for a quiet opening, accumulated whatever advanatages he Nikko Hotel D 2 Entrance fee is $200 and the 1could extract, and werit for the ji.igular in the endgame. However, Plumeria Hotel D 2 dateline for submission of en f: with-less pieces~~ deal with, a computer like Deep Blu~ easil_y s_aw I HafaAdai D 2 trance fee and rosters will be on, i through the position, and made moves that a human m a similar 1 Diamond Hotel D 2 July 9, 1997, situation would have missed. In sh_ort, Kasp~rov was again frus- BODYBUILDERS and persons Pacific Gardenia D 3 j ! Results from Tuesday's Game: For more information please f trated by Deep Blue 's·cold calculatmg correctness. j interested in helping are invited to an Game 1: Dai lchi Hotel 72, Nikko Hotel 61 contact Charley Cepeda at 322- r. Annotations by GM Neil McDonald, IM Malcolm Pein, FM Chris• I important meeting on July 8, Tues Game 2: Marianas Resort 8:1, 5483. ; Duncan and CIM Mark Horton. ~ day at 5:30 pm at the Gilbert C. Ada Pacific Gardenia 55 *** Reti's Opening · . ___ gymnasium Conference room. Results from Thursday's Game: ! ~ Game I: PIG 59, Diamond Hotel 43 PIC Volleyball Tournament TheNovembertoumamentwill be Game2: Dai Jchi Hotel 90, Plumeria 49 Pacific Islands Club will be L.G~~:~~:~~~.~--~~~~-u:~ ?~ag~~ finalized. Continued on page 82 ~arianas %rietr~ -1 l.'i:, r• 1r1• 1\ l •.·• :r lir·,q f\i(;\'/S/ ,, 1pc,r '.,i11u, i r,'/'.' fJ (J fJuz :-n, I:;, 1i1 ,rin. rl11' (l(//',[J • ld. (6/U) 23,'J.63'1 I o i:,il.' o rll'il I r1, ((J/rJ) ::>:itJ 9') ! I .. , , I I I I I, I' I'' . . I ''\I''' \ I ' .. '.' ..